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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, July 07 2013 @ 12:54 PM EDT |
The U.S. government had a problem: Spying in the digital age
required access to the fiber-optic cables traversing the world’s oceans,
carrying torrents of data at the speed of light. And one of the biggest
operators of those cables was being sold to an Asian firm, potentially
complicating American surveillance efforts.
Enter “Team Telecom.”
In
months of private talks, the team of lawyers from the FBI and the departments of
Defense, Justice and Homeland Security demanded that the company maintain what
amounted to an internal corporate cell of American citizens with government
clearances. Among their jobs, documents show, was ensuring that surveillance
requests got fulfilled quickly and confidentially.
This “Network Security
Agreement,” signed in September 2003 by Global Crossing, became a model for
other deals over the past decade as foreign investors increasingly acquired
pieces of the world’s telecommunications infrastructure.
Craig Timberg and Ellen Nakashima,
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Sunday, July 07 2013 @ 02:22 PM EDT |
Link
Besides US, UK, Canada, New
Zealand, and Australia, it
looks solid that Sweden was added, primarily to
collect
intel from Russia.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, July 07 2013 @ 09:06 PM EDT |
Lufthansa shows
how it
should be done
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