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V.T. Eric Layton

... up Verizon's phone records for U.S. citizens.

 

Way to go Big V. You suck your customers dry and then betray them to Big Bro.

 

"Business ethics"... what a contradiction in terms that's become over the last few decades. :(

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Verizon got caught here, and I would tend to think all the major carriers got caught up in this nonsense. Secret order of secret interpretation of secret law. :rant: Yet silence from the MSM. but hey, no bias there. [rant and sarcasm off]

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I'm with crp, we just found out about Verizon, but they all must be under orders to do this.

Hopefully there will be enough publicity and outcry that they will all be exposed.

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Agreed. I am sure Verizon is not the ONLY carrier in on this.

 

But I am glad it has come out.

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If you want to see the articles about this topic and haven't seen them yet, easy to get them by doing any search with the following items in the search, "nsa verizon phone records".

 

Even the mainstream media gets this one is bad.

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If you want to see the articles about this topic and haven't seen them yet, easy to get them by doing any search with the following items in the search, "nsa verizon phone records".

 

Even the mainstream media gets this one is bad.

Sure , go ahead and read the articles, and also the additional stories that all the major social sites are getting sucked.

but if you do, don't be surprised when your door gets broken down in the middle of the night.

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People have a right to read articles, even derogatory articles about government and corps. Even the mainstream press is all over this, not just alternative news channels and outlets.

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Yes, it seems the rabbit hole goes very deep, sadly...and according to EFF been going on for at least 7 years!

 

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/confirmed-nsa-spying-millions-americans

 

NOTE: EFF website is either being hit by a ./ effect (hard to believe since they can generally handle a great amount of traffic), or they are being hit with DDoS attacks? I could get to the site off and on today.

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Since the site is off and on not available, and EFF doesn't mind being reprinted, here's the article:

 

Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans

 

Today, the Guardian newspaper confirmed what EFF (and many others) have long claimed: the NSA is conducting widespread, untargeted, domestic surveillance on millions of Americans. This revelation should end, once and for all, the government's long-discredited secrecy claims about its dragnet domestic surveillance programs. It should spur Congress and the American people to make the President finally tell the truth about the government's spying on innocent Americans.

 

In a report by Glenn Greenwald, the paper published an order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (or FISC) that directs Verizon to provide “on an ongoing daily basis” all call records for any call “wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls” and any call made “between the United States and abroad.”

 

In plain language: the order gave the NSA a record of every Verizon customer’s call history -- every call made, the location of the phone, the time of the call, the duration of the call, and other “identifying information” for the phone and call -- from April 25, 2013 (the date the order was issued) to July 19, 2013. The order does not require content or the name of any subscriber and is issued under 50 USC sec.1861, also known as section 215 of the Patriot Act.

 

There is no indication that this order to Verizon was unique or novel. It is very likely that business records orders like this exist for every major American telecommunication company, meaning that, if you make calls in the United States, the NSA has those records. And this has been going on for at least 7 years, and probably longer.

 

This type of untargeted, wholly domestic surveillance is exactly what EFF, and others, have been suing about for years. In 2006, USA Today published a story disclosing that the NSA had compiled a massive database of call records from American telecommunications companies. Our case, Jewel v. NSA,challenging the legality of the NSA’s domestic spying program, has been pending since 2008, but its predecessor, Hepting v. AT&T filed in 2006, alleged the same surveillance. In 2011, on the 10th Anniversary of the Patriot Act, we filed a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Justice for records about the government’s use of Section 215 – the legal authority the government was relying on to perform this type of untargeted surveillance.

 

But at each step of the way, the government has tried to hide the truth from the American public: inHepting, behind telecom immunity; in Jewel, behind the state secrets privilege; in the FOIA case, byclaiming the information is classified at the top secret level. In May 2011, Senator Ron Wyden, one of the few courageous voices fighting against the government’s domestic surveillance program, said thisin a debate about reauthorizing Section 215:

 

I want to deliver a warning this afternoon: when the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.

 

Today is that day. The American people have confirmed how the government has secretly interpreted Section 215. And we’re angry. It’s time to stop hiding behind legal privileges and to come clean about Section 215 and FISA. It’s time to start the national dialogue about our rights in the digital age. And it’s time to end the NSA’s unconstitutional domestic surveillance program.

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7 years - laugh-out-loud!

 

in the 1970's, the telcos were all complaining because the fbi was demanding access to so many ports on their switches that they literally could not afford to give them. read that in popular science, then!

 

I know Temmu, I thought the same thing, but I think they meant this particular level of interpretation of the Patriot Act.

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Specifically the seven years since PRISM collection went into effect as noted in The Guardian article that mac posted.

 

Here's an graphic about it:

 

Prism-001.jpg

 

And this one:

 

PRISM-slide-crop-001.jpg

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yes, the depth and breadth is appalling.

and how many preventions did this 'PRISM' in particular provide?

Now that they could point to 7 years ago, the MSM can protest. If it goes back to mid-90's the MSM will clam up again.

 

I just want to add to the people (columnist, politicians, bureaucrats,etc ) claiming that there is no problem with doing this,

then why was this kept as a secret enforcement of a secret legislation in a secret court?

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We still have not heard from Scot how long this forum has been handing over or allowing government access to the datum on this forum.

And I am not joking.

I left IRC years ago becuase of the "black hat/helicopter" and 'tin foil' garbage, but now ...

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UPDATE 1 - U.S. surveillance revelations deepen European fears of Web giants - Reuters

 

Europeans reacted angrily on Friday to revelations that U.S. authorities had tapped the servers of Internet companies for personal data, saying such activity confirmed their worst fears about American Web giants' reach and showed tighter regulations were needed.

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"The U.S. government must provide clarity regarding these monstrous allegations of total monitoring of various telecommunications and Internet services," said Peter Schaar, German data protection and freedom of information commissioner.

 

"Statements from the U.S. government that the monitoring was not aimed at U.S. citizens but only against persons outside the United States do not reassure me at all," he said.

 

This problem is certainly not ours alone. This is a universal problem for the world as well as for us. Doesn't reassure me either that they say it was not intended to be used against our own Citizens. It still can be used against our own Citizens. And now they say don't worry, it wasn't intended to be used against us and that is supposed to make us feel better?

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More from that article,

 

Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at Finnish software security firm F-Secure, said outrage was the appropriate response to the U.S. revelations.

 

"What we have in our hands now is the first concrete proof of U.S.-based high-tech companies participating with the NSA in wholesale surveillance on us, the rest of the world, the non-American, you and me," he said.

 

I think Mikko Hypponen is right. Non-Americans should be outraged.

 

But not only non-Americans should be outraged. I think Americans should be outraged and appalled as well. Whether the government says this was intended only for use outside the US or not. That is irrelevant. This should not be done inside or outside the U.S.

 

Not to mention that it still gives the same authority to do it here in the US against US Citizens.

 

And what will be the response from some non-American countries. What is good for the goose is good for the gander?

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We still have not heard from Scot how long this forum has been handing over or allowing government access to the datum on this forum.

 

And I am not joking.

 

I left IRC years ago becuase of the "black hat/helicopter" and 'tin foil' garbage, but now ...

 

Since even Google, et al apparently had no idea about this and it was likely being done above their knowledge level at the Tier 1 level, I am sure Scot, nor any of us would have any knowledge of that either.

 

See Larry Page's posting:

 

What the...? - Google Blogs

 

And a very good idea of how this could happen and sites and companies not even know about it:

 

 

PRISM: Here's how the NSA wiretapped the Internet - ZDNet

 

 

The U.S. National Security Agency's PRISM program is able to collect, in realtime, intelligence not limited to social networks and email accounts. But the seven tech companies accused of opening 'back doors' to the spy agency could well be proven innocent.

 

...

 

The wording on the fourth slide described the "dates when PRISM collection began for each provider," and not, for example, "dates when each provider began PRISM collection."

 

One by one, nearly all of the named companies denied knowledge of either knowing about PRISM, or providing any government agency user content, data or information without a court order or a search warrant.

 

But during that time, almost everyone forgot about Verizon. It's the cellular and wireline giant that makes the whole thing come together.

 

 

Well worth reading. Makes a lot of sense.

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Since even Google, et al apparently had no idea about this and it was likely being done above their knowledge level at the Tier 1 level, I am sure Scot, nor any of us would have any knowledge of that either.

 

Seeing as the entire forum is public and the only private information are PMs, email addresses, and IP addresses, I doubt Scot would knowingly set up something like that. Such information is contrary to the philosophy here.......

 

Adam

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amenditman

We also have to consider the fact that there might be penalties in place if the companies disclose what they do know about.

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Hmmm... I wonder what the real story is... fearmongering, laziness, or some other agenda......

 

 

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The really interesting thing is that they are just bring the result into line with what the government is saying. It doesn't say anything about whether or not the capability is in place due to the wording of the document released about Verizon. And other Tier 1 service providers like AT&T, Spring, Verizon, etc.

 

The document that was released about Verizon and is likely true about all Tier 1 service providers, pretty much makes it clear they can do this to anyone; foreign or domestic. There are no restrictions.

 

The only part that is in question now is whether it's foreign or domestic or both with regard to Prism. The Verizon document is not in question.

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Oh, and that only lets domestic off the hook. Foreign countries around the globe are still in the loop.

 

BTW: I was gratified that Ed Bott maintained the original and was able to show what changed. WIth 1984'esk abilities today, you would never know unless you did that.

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V.T. Eric Layton

Oh, yeah! I hear ya!

 

Great piece there Eric. :yes:

 

I liked it so much I posted it on all my blogs. :)

 

Fran, any plans to talk a bit about this on CNIRadio tonight?

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V.T. Eric Layton

We still have not heard from Scot how long this forum has been handing over or allowing government access to the datum on this forum.

And I am not joking.

I left IRC years ago becuase of the "black hat/helicopter" and 'tin foil' garbage, but now ...

 

The Gov doesn't need any permission to troll this forum. It's all out there for anyone to see and copy, with the exception of users private login data, of course. They'd have to ask for that, I would think.

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The really interesting thing is that they are just bring the result into line with what the government is saying. It doesn't say anything about whether or not the capability is in place due to the wording of the document released about Verizon. And other Tier 1 service providers like AT&T, Spring, Verizon, etc.

 

The only wording that changed, from what I could tell, is that the original article changed to not say that the data was sucked directly off the servers. Unless I am missing something somewhere that says otherwise......

 

Adam

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PRISM: Here's how the NSA wiretapped the Internet - ZDNet

 

 

Well worth reading. Makes a lot of sense.

 

The ZDNet PRISM article has received a number of updates since it was originally published.

 

The Gov doesn't need any permission to troll this forum. It's all out there for anyone to see and copy, with the exception of users private login data, of course. They'd have to ask for that, I would think.

 

Yup! Color changed to red in the quote below from the update of the referenced ZDNet PRISM article, identifies SNF as an "electronic communication".

This bit is interesting. An "electronic communications service provider," according to the EFF, in regards to the Wiretap Act: "As a rule, a communication is an electronic communication if it is neither carried by sound waves nor can fairly be characterized as one containing the human voice (carried in part by wire)." Separately, the EFF also notes that anyone from ISPs to message boards and some websites are conisdered electronic communications service providers. On a side note, an Ars Technica article from 2009 says that the definition remains vague and under scrutiny by the U.S. courts.

 

We have always been under scrutiny. It was probably ~1972 during the Cold War when two FBI agents showed up at the door wanting to know about a recent visitor. My father-in-law's brother (a farmer) had visited from Ukraine. The agents wanted to know the purpose of his visit, who they saw and where they went. On the other hand, there were no questions asked of family in Ukraine the many times my father-in-law visited there. He had no problems traveling (even when he unwittingly wrapped gifts for family in a U.S. published Ukrainian language newspaper which was, shall I say, not particularly favorable to the Soviet Union. It is just easier now with the Patriot Act combined with advanced technology. These days, the FBI would know about an impending visit even before the family.

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