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Agreements with private companies protect U.S. access to cables’ data for surveillance
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, Washington Post

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Looks like Sweden is a sixth eye
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Sunday, July 07 2013 @ 02:22 PM EDT
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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.

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Landing SFO 28R
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, July 07 2013 @ 09:06 PM EDT
Lufthansa shows how it should be done

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