Re: [privacy] Wired News Publishes AT&T Whistle-Blowers Uncut Evidence

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 Yikes, I'm surprised that Wired would publish that after a Judge ordered it sealed.....   And at that, I'm surprised 
it's still up and available on the 'net....


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Fergie [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net] 
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 9:33 AM
To: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
Subject: [privacy] Wired News Publishes AT&T Whistle-Blowers Uncut Evidence

In a gutsy move, Wired News has published, uncut, Mark Klein's
evidence which has been filed in U.S. Federal Court, and which
has also been sealed as a result of a motion filed by the
Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Evan Hansen writes on Wired News:

[snip]

A file detailing aspects of AT&T's alleged participation in the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic wiretap 
operation is sitting in a San Francisco courthouse. But the public cannot see it because, at AT&T's insistence, it 
remains under seal in court records.

The judge in the case has so far denied requests from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF, and several news 
organizations to unseal the documents and make them public.

AT&T claims information in the file is proprietary and that it would suffer severe harm if it were released.

Based on what we've seen, Wired News disagrees. In addition, we believe the public's right to know the full facts in 
this case outweighs AT&T's claims to secrecy.

[snip]

Hansen's statement is here:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70947-0.html

The evidence statement is here:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70944-0.html

- ferg

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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