NYT: "AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale"
*AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale* By Julia Angwin, Charlie Savage, Jeff Larson, Henrik Moltke, Laura Poitras and James Risen AUG. 15, 2015 The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T. While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, newly disclosed N.S.A. documents show that the relationship with AT&T has been considered unique and especially productive. One document described it as “highly collaborative,” while another lauded the company’s “extreme willingness to help.” AT&T’s cooperation has involved a broad range of classified activities, according to the documents, which date from 2003 to 2013. AT&T has given the N.S.A. access, through several methods covered under different legal rules, to billions of emails as they have flowed across its domestic networks. It provided technical assistance in carrying out a secret court order permitting the wiretapping of all Internet communications at the United Nations headquarters, a customer of AT&T. […] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array...
È dal 2005 che la Electronic Frontier Foundation sta lottando nelle corti USA contro AT&T ed NSA per fermare l'intercettazione. https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying David Orban "What is the question that I should be asking?" twitter, linkedin, etc: davidorban On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 6:44 PM, J.C. DE MARTIN <demartin@polito.it> wrote:
*AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale*
By Julia Angwin, Charlie Savage, Jeff Larson, Henrik Moltke, Laura Poitras and James Risen
AUG. 15, 2015
The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T.
While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, newly disclosed N.S.A. documents show that the relationship with AT&T has been considered unique and especially productive. One document described it as “highly collaborative,” while another lauded the company’s “extreme willingness to help.”
AT&T’s cooperation has involved a broad range of classified activities, according to the documents, which date from 2003 to 2013. AT&T has given the N.S.A. access, through several methods covered under different legal rules, to billions of emails as they have flowed across its domestic networks. It provided technical assistance in carrying out a secret court order permitting the wiretapping of all Internet communications at the United Nations headquarters, a customer of AT&T.
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Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array...
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AT&T ha circa cento milioni di clienti.* Skype ha circa trecento milioni di utilizzatori. ** Nel gennaio 2013 ha avuto una certa eco una lettera aperta a Skype. Firmata da EFF e da molte altre organizzazioni, chiedeva chiarimenti relativamente alla posizione di Skype sulla gestione dei dati degli utilizzatori, a seguito dell'acquisizione da parte di Microsoft. Questa pubblicava con vanto anacronistico il passaggio dell'architettura di Skype da una distribuita peer-to-peer ad una centralizzata basata sui data center di Microsoft. Il sito non è più accessibile, ma ne esiste naturalmente una copia su Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20130127010510/http://www.skypeopenletter.com/ Che io sappia non c'è stata nessuna risposta e Skype non pubblica rapporti di trasparenza. * https://www.reddit.com/r/answers/comments/1eln9j/how_many_customers_does_ver... ** http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/skype-statistics/ David Orban "What is the question that I should be asking?" twitter, linkedin, etc: davidorban On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 6:52 PM, David Orban <david@davidorban.com> wrote:
È dal 2005 che la Electronic Frontier Foundation sta lottando nelle corti USA contro AT&T ed NSA per fermare l'intercettazione. https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying
David Orban "What is the question that I should be asking?" twitter, linkedin, etc: davidorban
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 6:44 PM, J.C. DE MARTIN <demartin@polito.it> wrote:
*AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale*
By Julia Angwin, Charlie Savage, Jeff Larson, Henrik Moltke, Laura Poitras and James Risen
AUG. 15, 2015
The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T.
While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, newly disclosed N.S.A. documents show that the relationship with AT&T has been considered unique and especially productive. One document described it as “highly collaborative,” while another lauded the company’s “extreme willingness to help.”
AT&T’s cooperation has involved a broad range of classified activities, according to the documents, which date from 2003 to 2013. AT&T has given the N.S.A. access, through several methods covered under different legal rules, to billions of emails as they have flowed across its domestic networks. It provided technical assistance in carrying out a secret court order permitting the wiretapping of all Internet communications at the United Nations headquarters, a customer of AT&T.
[…]
Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array...
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