[governance] NSA penetrates Brazilian telecom

Diego Rafael Canabarro diegocanabarro at gmail.com
Sun Jul 7 12:24:53 EDT 2013 

Some of them have agreements with others. E.g.: Tim with AT&T. But the only
one which is related to all of them at the same time is Verizon.


On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Diego Rafael Canabarro <
diegocanabarro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Vivo, Claro, TIM and Oi have agreements with Verizon. : )
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net
> > wrote:
>
>> It depends on which carrier you use in brazil, who they have roaming
>> agreements with and which of the carriers they have roaming agreements with
>> has a stronger signal in the area you happen to be in. Could well be AT&T,
>> t mobile or whatever else
>>
>> --srs (iPad)
>>
>> On 07-Jul-2013, at 18:55, Diego Rafael Canabarro <
>> diegocanabarro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> When you use a mobile line in Brazil and come to the US, your roaming
>> displays VERIZON.
>> On Jul 7, 2013 8:09 AM, "parminder" <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>>
>>>  From the below news item;
>>>
>>>
>>> "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 *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). *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."
>>>
>>> There are basically two large US telecoms AT&T and Verizon... Any such
>>> public private partnership for global snooping is very worrisome.
>>>
>>> parminder
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Sunday 07 July 2013 10:10 AM, michael gurstein wrote:
>>>
>>>  The NSA's mass and indiscriminate spying on Brazilians****
>>>
>>> As it does in many non-adversarial countries, the surveillance agency is
>>> bulk collecting the communications of millions of citizens of Brazil****
>>> ****
>>>
>>> The National Security Administration headquarters in Fort Meade,
>>> Maryland. Whistleblower Edward Snowden worked as a data miner for the NSA
>>> in Hawaii. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA****
>>>
>>> I've written an article on NSA surveillance for the front page of the
>>> Sunday edition of O Globo<http://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/eua-espionaram-milhoes-de-mails-ligacoes-de-brasileiros-8940934>,
>>> the large Brazilian newspaper based in Rio de Janeiro. The article is
>>> headlined (translated) "US spied on millions of emails and calls of
>>> Brazilians", and I co-wrote it with Globo reporters Roberto Kaz and Jose
>>> Casado. The rough translation of the article into English is here<http://translate.google.com.br/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Foglobo.globo.com%2Fmundo%2Feua-espionaram-milhoes-de-mails-ligacoes-de-brasileiros-8940934&act=url>.
>>> The main page of Globo's website lists related NSA<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/nsa>stories:
>>> here <http://oglobo.globo.com/>.****
>>>
>>> As the headline suggests, the crux of the main article details how the
>>> NSA has, for years, systematically tapped into the Brazilian
>>> telecommunication network and indiscriminately intercepted, collected and
>>> stored the email and telephone records of millions of Brazilians. The story
>>> follows an article in Der Spiegel last week<http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/nsa-spies-on-500-million-german-data-connections-a-908648.html>,
>>> written by Laura Poitras and reporters from that paper, detailing the NSA's
>>> mass and indiscriminate collection of the electronic communications of
>>> millions of Germans. There are many more populations of non-adversarial
>>> countries which have been subjected to the same type of mass surveillance
>>> net by the NSA: indeed, the list of those which haven't been are shorter
>>> than those which have. The claim that any other nation is engaging in
>>> anything remotely approaching indiscriminate worldwide surveillance of this
>>> sort is baseless.****
>>>
>>> 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 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. 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. Both articles are based on top
>>> secret documents provided by Edward Snowden; O Globo published several of
>>> them.****
>>>
>>> The vast majority of the GuardianUS's revelations thus far have
>>> concerned NSA domestic spying: the bulk collection of telephone records<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order>,
>>> the PRISM program<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data>,
>>> Obama's presidential directive<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/obama-china-targets-cyber-overseas>that authorizes domestic use of cyber-operations, the Boundless
>>> Informant data<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-informant-global-datamining>detailing billions of records collected from US systems, the serial
>>> falsehoods publicly voiced<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/19/fisa-court-oversight-process-secrecy>by top Obama officials about the NSA's surveillance schemes, and most
>>> recently, the bulk collection of email and internet metadata<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/nsa-data-mining-authorised-obama>records for Americans. Future stories in the GuardianUS will largely
>>> continue to focus on the NSA's domestic spying.****
>>>
>>> But contrary to what some want to suggest, the privacy rights of
>>> Americans aren't the only ones that matter. That the US government - in
>>> complete secrecy - is constructing a ubiquitous spying apparatus aimed not
>>> only at its own citizens, but *all of the world's citizens*, has
>>> profound consequences. It erodes, if not eliminates, the ability to use the
>>> internet with any remnant of privacy or personal security. It vests the US
>>> government with boundless power over those to whom it has no
>>> accountability. It permits allies of the US - including aggressively
>>> oppressive ones - to benefit from indiscriminate spying on their citizens'
>>> communications. It radically alters the balance of power between the US and
>>> ordinary citizens of the world. And it sends an unmistakable signal to the
>>> world that while the US *very minimally *values the privacy rights of
>>> Americans, it assigns zero value to the privacy of everyone else on the
>>> planet.****
>>>
>>> This development - the construction of a worldwide, ubiquitous
>>> electronic surveillance apparatus - is self-evidently newsworthy, extreme,
>>> and dangerous. It deserves transparency. People around the world have no
>>> idea that all of their telephonic and internet communications are being
>>> collected, stored and analyzed by a distant government. But that's exactly
>>> what is happening, in secrecy and with virtually no accountability. And it
>>> is inexorably growing, all in the dark. At the very least, it merits public
>>> understanding and debate. That is now possible thanks solely to these
>>> disclosures.****
>>> The Guardian's reporting****
>>>
>>> One brief note on the Guardian is merited here: I've been continuously
>>> amazed by how intrepid, fearless and committed the Guardian's editors have
>>> been in reporting these NSA stories as effectively and aggressively as
>>> possible. They have never flinched in reporting these stories, have spared
>>> no expense in pursuing them, have refused to allow vague and baseless
>>> government assertions to suppress any of the newsworthy revelations, have
>>> devoted extraordinary resources to ensure accuracy and potency, and have
>>> generally been animated by exactly the kind of adversarial journalistic
>>> ethos that has been all too lacking over the last decade or so (see this
>>> Atlantic article<http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/the-british-are-coming-and-theyve-brought-newspapers/277486/>from yesterday highlighting the role played by the Guardian US's
>>> editor-in-chief, Janine Gibson).****
>>>
>>> I don't need to say any of this, but do so only because it's so true and
>>> impressive: they deserve a lot of credit for the impact these stories have
>>> had. To underscore that: because we're currently working on so many
>>> articles involving NSA domestic spying, it would have been weeks, at least,
>>> before we would have been able to publish this story about indiscriminate
>>> NSA surveillance of Brazilians. Rather than sit on such a newsworthy story
>>> - especially at a time when Latin America, for several<http://news.yahoo.com/bolivia-plane-incident-infuriates-latin-america-211051576.html>
>>> reasons<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/06/venezuela-nicaragua-offer-asylum-edward-snowden>,
>>> is so focused on these revelations - they were enthused about my partnering
>>> with O Globo, where it could produce the most impact. In other words, they
>>> sacrificed short-term competitive advantage for the sake of the story by
>>> encouraging me to write this story with O Globo. I don't think many media
>>> outlets would have made that choice, but that's the kind of journalistic
>>> virtue that has driven the paper's editors from the start of this story.
>>> ****
>>>
>>> This has been a Guardian story from the start and will continue to be.
>>> Snowden came to us before coming to any other media outlet, and I'll
>>> continue to write virtually all NSA stories right in this very space. But
>>> the O Globo story will resonate greatly in Brazil and more broadly in Latin
>>> America, where most people had no idea that their electronic communications
>>> were being collected in bulk by this highly secretive US agency. For more
>>> on how the Guardian's editors have overseen the reporting of the NSA
>>> stories, see this informative interview on the Charlie Rose Show from last
>>> week with Gibson and Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger: ****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>>
>>>
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