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Big brother is watching… is this news?
An AT&T technician who worked at a San Francisco switching station has revealed the existence of US NSA technology that splits a major network backbone interchange at the physical connection level. This sort of thing, done at only a few well-placed sites, can provide the US government with effectively full access to telephone calls and all data communications. Of course, in the case of encrypted data traffic the government then has to decrypt it. But they have plenty of computer resources to do so. (The risk analysis for the light encryption used on the internet basically assumes that the person who would like to crack your data does not have the resources of a major government.) Compared to a few FISA wiretaps, this is the big time. The US government has stated it will hide the facts from Americans by shutting down the lawsuit into this matter. The US government can basically end any civil lawsuit on demand due to a legal precedent, and the Bush government has been the most frequent user of this power in history. It was recently used to quash Maher Arar’s civil suit.
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