Posted on 06/26/2018 7:11:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin
AT&T data facilities in the U.S. are regarded as high-value sites to the NSA for giving the agency direct backbone access to raw data that passes through, including emails, web browsing, social media and any other form of unencrypted online activity. The NSA uses the web of eight AT&T hubs for a surveillance operation code-named FAIRVIEW, a program previously reported by The New York Times. The program, first established in 1985, involves tapping into international telecommunications cables, routers, and switches and only coordinates directly with AT&T and not the other major U.S. mobile carriers.
AT&Ts deep involvement with the NSA monitoring program operated under the code name SAGUARO. Messaging, email and other web traffic accessed through the program was made searchable through XKEYSCORE, one of the NSAs more infamous search-powered surveillance tools.
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The data exchange between AT&T and other networks initially takes place outside AT&Ts control, sources said, at third-party data centers that are owned and operated by companies such as Californias Equinix. But the data is then routed in whole or in part through the eight AT&T buildings, where the NSA taps into it. By monitoring what it calls the peering circuits at the eight sites, the spy agency can collect not only AT&Ts data, they get all the data thats interchanged between AT&Ts network and other companies, according to Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician who worked with the company for 22 years.
The NSA describes these locations as peering link router complex sites while AT&T calls them Service Node Routing Complexes (SNRCs). The eight complexes are spread across the nations major cities, with locations in Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.
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What we don’t know is pretty scary. Are we better off knowing or not knowing? I guess the government thinks IT is better off knowing EVERYTHING. I have to wonder about the employees in any of those places. How well are they investigated? Reminds me of the credit card center in upstate NY that employs Muslims from the Islamberg compound.
Can’t find that particular piece of info right now....
Have never understood why any of their compounds around the country are allowed. I see one member was arrested there on gun charges - at least they didn’t burn the whole compound down like they did in Waco...That would be a big NO NO!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamberg,_New_York
Remember that secret room in that building in SF. It’s now protected by human excrement outside.
When I was working on fuel systems, AT&T wanted a colonoscopy before I did anything for them. It was way easier to get into federal reservations/bases.
But, from recall Perot Systems was pretty thorough as well
Spear Street, about block down from Google. Wonder why that would be?
The next Trump synthetic scandal?
The Kenyanesian Usurper has turned our government against US.
AT&T have always been a branch of the government.
The buildings may be of high value, but the valuable router infrastructure is underground, hardened and had to damage with bombs or EMP.
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i have a good friend who quit Juniper Networks because they wanted him to work on classified NSA backdoors for AT&T backbone equipment ...
1. ALL the networks (IP, cellular and PSTN) provide feeds to DHS ... and thus the NSA. This isn’t actually an ATT-only thing.
2. Recall there used to be ONLY Ma Bell (ATT), which was split by Judge Green, and is now re-formulating/ coagulating. So this goes WAY back in US history. But again, ALL the networks do this. ALL of them.
3. The US networks have legal permission to analyze netflows, but *DO NOT* inspect the content of customer traffic. PERIOD. *IF* the network is contracted by the customer to do inspection, that’s OK. HOWEVER, the gummint takes raw feeds ...
FD: I work in the business.
In DC, back in the early 90s, I’d go to DC for business a lot and near the Pentagon we would drive past this huge windowless bunkerlike AT&T building with a bunch of antennae on top and joke that we should speak in whispers because they’re clearly listening. Turns out they were, as I’m pretty sure that is the building in DC that they mention.
More and more internet traffic is encrypted.
FR is not, but if the NSA wants to read our posts, all they have to do is type in the URL>
All the big tech companies are in bed with big guv.
Otnay toay orryway.
Eeway illway oozeyay odecay.
Warren Buffett says one thing to look for in evaluating a business is whether it is surrounded by a protective moat. /S
There are TWO in Everett, WA.
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