Yes...I think using US vendors whenever possible was always part of their policy. Let me look at the latest Lucent gear. Actually, of all the documents I've seen until now, the only real smoking gun is the use of the optical splitters themselves...if everything was above board they should have been able to drop-and-continue copies of the traffic "legally" using the transport equipment itself. Also, the fact that AT&T tryed to surpress the documentation says a lot too. They could have played it cool: "Nothing to see here, see? We were just testing traffic like we always do..." -TD
From: "J.A. Terranson" <measl@mfn.org> To: Tyler Durden <camera_lumina@hotmail.com> CC: coderman@gmail.com, kyphros@gmail.com, cypherpunks@jfet.org Subject: Re: NS&AT&T Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 13:23:48 -0500 (CDT)
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Tyler Durden wrote:
Anyone know what telecom vendor NSA uses?
Lucent (now French, I believe?)
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