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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07.07.13 15:08, parminder wrote:<br>
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<font face="Verdana">From the below news item;<br>
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<font face="Verdana">"As those two articles detail, all of this
bulk, indiscriminate surveillance aimed at populations of
friendly foreign nations is part of the NSA's "FAIRVIEW"
program. Under that program, the <i><b>NSA partners with a
large US telecommunications company, the identity of which
is currently unknown, and that US company then partners
with telecoms in the foreign countries (emphasis added). </b></i>Those
partnerships allow the US company access to those countries'
telecommunications systems, and that access is then exploited
to direct traffic to the NSA's repositories."</font></blockquote>
<font face="Verdana">There are basically two large US telecoms
AT&T and Verizon... Any such public private partnership for
global snooping is very worrisome.</font><br>
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The morale: never trust any telecom.<br>
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They are forced to cooperate, or their monopoly licenses are at
risk. So much about free market. Most of those will happily do it
"for free".<br>
Might be, time for the ITU to dissolve, or just transform into
interoperability standards making body.... wishful thinking, this.
No government (read: secret services bureau) will ever let this
happen.<br>
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Daniel<br>
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