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On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 05:38:57PM +0000, James wrote: |
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> SS7 (The north American "switching standard") where the tariffs are still |
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> enforced is where the phone "meta-data" comes from regardless of how it is |
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> originated. Now, All data from an ISP, Telco |
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> web company, social media or anything else can all be moved between "ICPs" |
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> for business (sales) purposes now via this document and many others. What's |
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> new is the Feds will be paying gargantuan sums of money to the telcos now |
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> to keep data they already maintain..... |
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> Yes this is the back door that has always existed and all advanced countries |
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> use it. The "agencies" just buy the data from offshore sources; |
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> thus circumventing domestic restrictions. That was/is a fundamental tenet of |
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> "signal intercept". |
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> Did you notice that after the fall, of the Berlin wall (nov 1989), the good |
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> ole USA needed a new boogey man to justify spending billions and billions to |
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> keep us secure? The Internet security business opened in 1990 via public |
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> access to the Internet. |
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> Soon it will be those evil Chinese. Taxpayers pay; so the politicians |
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> and can play..... There has to be a boogey man, to justify spending billions |
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> on keeping us safe. |
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> The Onion with strong encryption does delay the process. But there's |
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> too much advanced hardware available if they really want to decipher |
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> a particular stream of data. |
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not |
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sure about the former." |
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