NS&AT&T

[Tyler Durden]

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 at mfn.org>
>To: Tyler Durden <camera_lumina at hotmail.com>
>CC: coderman at gmail.com, kyphros at gmail.com, cypherpunks at 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?)
>
>
>--
>Yours,
>
>J.A. Terranson
>sysadmin at mfn.org
>0xBD4A95BF
>
>
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