The New York Times revealed some disturbing news this weekend - the aT & T telecommunications giant is a willing partner with the US National Security Agency (NSA), and helped the NSA spy on Internet traffic of a massive number of users aT & T
section details the particular relationship of the company with the NSA, that was. "cooperation" described as This partnership was heavily funded by the NSA during the last 10 years and, according to the article, aT & T provided the NSA with access to billions of emails that were sent on their network in the United States:
" aT & T gave the NSA access by several methods covered by different legal rules, billions of emails as they sank through its domestic network. It has provided technical assistance in the execution of a secret court order permitting the interception of all Internet communications at United Nations headquarters, a customer of aT & T "
the partnership includes several classified operations, surveillance equipment installations at many US aT & T and hubs testing of new surveillance technologies. To make matters worse, the NSA has tried to keep the identity of their partner AT & T (and other partners in the telecom space) a secret. There was much opposition to these spy techniques among technology companies, with many turning to encryption as a solution. But telecommunications providers have been more reluctant to speak.
Shame on you, AT & T. But what is really new. We know AT & T was voluntarily cooperated with the NSA since 07, when AT & T has diverted the customer Internet traffic infamous 641a chamber NSA in San Francisco. Room 641a is one of the reasons Golden Frog was founded. When we saw the news on 641a House have filed papers with the FCC to bring this alarming activity to their attention. The FCC has ignored us, then Golden Frog was founded to build privacy and security of online tools to protect against this very type of behavior.
continued abuse of AT & T's right to its customers privacy only underlines the need for the FCC Open Internet Order to consider privacy and the prevention of "expressways. " Open Internet Order will allow consumers to "go where they want, when they want," but what is the point if they are spied on by their ISP at multiple points in their internet connection in cooperation with the government?
AT & T violated the right of clients to privacy in a big way, and this news underscores more than ever the need to provide people with the tools to protect themselves online. People have the right to communicate on the Internet - without fear of NSA looking over their shoulders. We need more than encryption and we must fight against the encryption backdoors so that service providers such as AT & T can not abuse our privacy without our knowledge
We will look at this evolution close and we're curious to see how AT & T -. And customers - will respond.
For more details on the partnership with the NSA AT & T, read the NYT article.
Full Document describing the Partnership is also available.
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