If this goes through, actors and singers who were horrified by the Patriot Act will be just fine with this. Terrorists don’t bother them, but profit loss, well, that’s something else!
Whoever’s assigned to monitor me will die of boredom.
“She’s on Free Republic . . . now she’s on eBay . . . now back to Free Republic . . . eBay again . . . she’s Googling something . . . now Free Republic . . . now that knitting site . . . can I swap with someone?”
Of course, the sound you will hear is of AT&T stock falling, on the simple premise that when a company is more interested in appeasing other companies than its customers, massive losses are inevitable.
So, they’re going to break the law to find people breaking the law? Interesting.
Time to include in all emails words like:
terrorist pig
gun
bomb
bomba
Rosie
bada Bing
mafia
Putin
Nancy smells
fugggetaboutit
This is actually an old story...
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If you’re a Windows user, fire up an MS-DOS command prompt. Now type tracert followed by the domain name of the website, e-mail host, VoIP switch, or whatever destination you’re interested in. Watch as the program spits out your route, line by line.
C:\> tracert nsa.gov
1 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 12.110.110.204
[...]
7 11 ms 14 ms 10 ms as-0-0.bbr2.SanJose1.Level3.net [64.159.0.218]
8 13 12 19 ms ae-23-56.car3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.68.123.173]
9 18 ms 16 ms 16 ms 192.205.33.17
10 88 ms 92 ms 91 ms tbr2-p012201.sffca.ip.att.net [12.123.13.186]
11 88 ms 90 ms 88 ms tbr1-cl2.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.10.41]
12 89 ms 97 ms 89 ms tbr1-cl4.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.122.10.29]
13 89 ms 88 ms 88 ms ar2-a3120s6.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.123.8.65]
14 102 ms 93 ms 112 ms 12.127.209.214
15 94 ms 94 ms 93 ms 12.110.110.13
16 * * *
17 * * *
18 * *
In the above example, my traffic is jumping from Level 3 Communications to AT&T’s network in San Francisco, presumably over the OC-48 circuit that AT&T tapped on February 20th, 2003, according to the Klein docs.
The magic string you’re looking for is sffca.ip.att.net. If it’s present immediately above or below a non-att.net entry, then — by Klein’s allegations — your packets are being copied into room 641A, and from there, illegally, to the NSA.
Of course, if Marcus is correct and AT&T has installed these secret rooms all around the country, then any att.net entry in your route is a bad sign.
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AT&T has been on my sh%$ list for about 5 years now. This reaffirms their status on the list. I’ll go Internet phone service before I’ll pay AT&T a thin dime.
Hey its their network..
ping
I wonder if this spying will apply to only end users of AT&T networks, or all traffic that simply routes through AT&T backbones destined to end users on other networks.
