[privacy] AT&T: Wired News Is a 'Scofflaw'

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via Wired News.

[snip]

Wired News is a "scofflaw" full of "hot air" and should not be heard in
a class-action lawsuit accusing AT&T of violating customers' privacy by
cooperating with the National Security Agency in a warrantless internet
wiretap operation, the telecommunications company said in a court
filing Monday.

AT&T was responding to a May 23 petition from Wired News asking to
intervene in the case in order to seek the unsealing of more than 140
pages of documents submitted as evidence.

On May 22, Wired News published 30 pages of documents acquired from an
anonymous source who is not a party to the case. The papers include an
affidavit from whistle-blower Mark Klein and eight pages of documents
stamped "AT&T Proprietary." The AT&T pages are believed to be excerpts
from some of the documents filed under seal in the case, and depict a
detailed scheme for capturing and analyzing data flowing through AT&T's
fiber-optic backbone. Klein's accompanying statement describes the
setup as part of an NSA wiretap operation in AT&T's San Francisco
switching center.

[snip]

More:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71146-0.html

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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