ATS: AT&T Narus Collaboration Sent Your Private Internet Communications to The NSA, page 1
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Topic started on 9-4-2006 @ 09:47 PM by SkepticOverlord
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a brief with specific claims that AT&T has routed the Internet traffic of their customers directly to the National Security Agency. AT&T, the brief claims, has given the government direct access to the Internet communications of millions of ordinary Americans.



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EFF's evidence regarding AT&T's dragnet surveillance of its networks includes a declaration by Mark Klein, a retired AT&T telecommunications technician, and several internal AT&T documents. This evidence was bolstered and explained by the expert opinion of J. Scott Marcus, who served as Senior Technical Advisor for Internet Technology to the Federal Communications Commission from July 2001 until July 2005.

The internal AT&T documents and portions of the supporting declarations have been submitted to the Court under a tentative seal, a procedure that allows AT&T five court days to explain to the Court why the information should be kept from the public.


Please visit the link provided for the complete story.


If true, we can surmise that this massive disregard for Constitutional rights far exceeds any previous wiretapping stories.

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Earlier today we found out that the EFF had sued AT&T over their secret work with the NSA on surveillance of millions of US citizens without wiretaps. We learned that paragraph 65 of this complaint shows EFF is trying to turn it into a nationwide Class Action suit covering all current and former customers (any after 9/2001) of AT&T. And we learned that a retired AT&T technician had stepped forward and disclosed the installation of secret NSA spy equipment in the San Francisco trunk facility. As well as the belief that similar equipment is in place in Seattle, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego.

Specifically, this equipment was the Narus ST-6400, a machine that was capable of monitoring over 622 Mbits/second in real time in May, 2000, and capturing anything that hits its' semantice (i.e. the meaning of the content) triggers. The latest generation is called NarusInsight, capable of monitoring 10 billion bits of data per second.

Follow me over the jump and let's learn some more about the private company Narus, it's founder Ovi Cohen, and board member Bill Crowell. Shall we?


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reply posted on 9-4-2006 @ 11:18 PM by QuietSoul
Page 7, line 14 states that:

On information and belief, besides actually eavesdropping on specific conversations,NSA personnel have intercepted large volumes of domestic and international telephone and Internettraffic in search of patterns of interest, in what has been described in press reports as a large “datamining” program.


Page 8, Line 3:

41. On information and belief, AT&T Corp. has provided and continues to provide the government with direct access to all or a substantial number of the communications transmitted through its key domestic telecommunications facilities, including direct access to streams of domestic, international and foreign telephone and Internet communications.


Page 8, line 10:

43. On information and belief, the interception devices acquire the content of all or a substantial number of the wire or electronic communications transferred through the AT&T Corp.
facilities where they have been installed.


Page 8, Line 13:

On information and belief, the pen registers and/or trap and trace devices capture, record or decode the dialing, routing, addressing and/or signaling information (“DRAS information”) for all or a substantial number of the wire or electronic communications transferred through the AT&T Corp. facilities where they have been installed.


It doesnt state specifically anywhere in the suit whether it was domestic, or international. It merely states that access of all traffic from AT&T and all databases supported by AT&T (Daytona Database) was handed over to the NSA.


reply posted on 10-4-2006 @ 01:50 AM by Bhadhidar
Originally posted by DontTreadOnMe
You'd think this would be a big story here!
There's a thread in Political Conspiracies, with ONE reply, mine:
www.abovetopsecret.com...


Finally this is coming out! Thank the Fates!

But I think that I've got you beat, DontTreadOnMe.

Back in January, I think it was, I tried to post a story to ATSNN about the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filing a class action suit against AT&T for violating its customer's privacy rights by collaborating with the NSA. The very suit which initiated this current action.

Not only was there Not A Single Response to my submission, But the submission was voted down as not related to a conspiracy!

And, the post dropped off the boards within just a few hours.

Ah well, all things come to he who waits, I suppose.

I give This submission a hearty

Call it spite if you will, but sometimes we have to subordinate our egos to the noble pursuit of the Truth.

P.S.: Anyone know if story submissions to ATSNN are archived in such a way that they can be added as a saved file to "My ATS"? For posterity's sake...You never forget your first time!

[edit on 10-4-2006 by Bhadhidar]


reply posted on 10-4-2006 @ 03:24 AM by IAF101
I first saw this story on an ATS thread that quoted from Rense dot com and I was skeptical to believe it as rense obviously has a reputation but now that it has crossed into the right side of credibility fence we are forced to take notice of this.
WIRED NEWS
Though this information wouldnt come as a shock to many, keeping in mind the recent illegal wiretapping scandal and all, it certainly raises a few eyebrows as to the level of surveillance our nation is under. What is also surprising is how the IT sector has increasingly become a staging ground for the intelligence community. From what is claimed, the NSA, NARUS and AT&T(and god knows how many other companies nation-wide) have all actively colluded towards such a grand exercise in surveillance.

I wonder why the corporate sector is so eager to help out the intelligence community or is it that the intelligence community is now setting up private companies to mass produce surveillance equipment which it can not do on its own and to do this they are getting private players to partner with them too! I would say that the latter is a definite probability for if we look at the company that makes the surveillance equipment [NARUS] they accuse AT&T of using, is backed by some major names like Intel, NTT software, JP Morgan etc. Not only do they meet their own requirement for surveillance equipment they also make a clean profit with no need to invest in development as the NSA provides them with all the specs already.

I wonder what they will uncover next, surveillance equipment in-built into our computers !? But I guess that would be expected of them too, for as they say; "In God we trust, everyone else we monitor"

Another informative article on Narus Kills VOIP



reply posted on 10-4-2006 @ 06:24 AM by TheBandit795
Originally posted by Bhadhidar

P.S.: Anyone know if story submissions to ATSNN are archived in such a way that they can be added as a saved file to "My ATS"? For posterity's sake...You never forget your first time!



I've found your thread here:


AT&T Sued for Aiding Gov't Spying (moved from ATSNN)

Can you believe this is the first time I've seen it?

To me it's incredible that members would vote such a topic down. I mean articles like these is what denying ignorance and ATS is all about. Astonishing! Amazing! Horrifying!


[edit on 10-4-2006 by TheBandit795]


reply posted on 10-4-2006 @ 07:40 AM by donwhite
posted by Astronomer68: “NSA's equipment doesn't care . . NSA has designated as ‘traffic of interest’ . . then the traffic is shunted into more specialized equipment . . by this time 99.99+ percent of the traffic has been rejected . . There is simply too much traffic to get a human involved unless the traffic is worthy of the time & expense involved. [Edited by Don W]


Thanks, A-68, for an informative post. I’m an old person who has already lived those promised years in the Holy Bible, 70. You might say I’m on “borrowed” time. I am less effected by the new “rules of engagement” than most of you. I don’t like what I’m seeing in 2006, but then, I don’t want to be caught dumb and ill-prepared again.

I think this practice - snooping without a warrant - or any probably cause - has happened for a long time and in many places around the world. When the practice is done by competent and honest bureaucrats, we really never hear of it. It is handled discretely and I guess, properly, in the most civil of senses.

The frightening temptation is for the persons in power to misuse the information so gleaned. This is the issue I’d like to see addressed at the highest levels. The kind of duplicity this current administrant practices on a daily basis leaves me no confidence in any actions they might propose or take. Our security is more in our numbers than in the laws of the land or the people who swore oaths to uphold them. That is lamentable.


reply posted on 10-4-2006 @ 07:46 AM by Bhadhidar
Originally posted by TheBandit795
Originally posted by Bhadhidar

P.S.: Anyone know if story submissions to ATSNN are archived in such a way that they can be added as a saved file to "My ATS"? For posterity's sake...You never forget your first time!



I've found your thread here:


AT&T Sued for Aiding Gov't Spying (moved from ATSNN)

Can you believe this is the first time I've seen it?

To me it's incredible that members would vote such a topic down. I mean articles like these is what denying ignorance and ATS is all about. Astonishing! Amazing! Horrifying!


[edit on 10-4-2006 by TheBandit795]


Thank you so much for the link Bandit!

I was quite suprised myself...especially considering the speed with which this submission was "swept under the rug?' so to speak.

Why, it almost seemed like.......

A Conspiracy!
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