Comments on: “Dude, that’s what they want.”

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:53:11 +0000

Some bugs are features.
Others are just bugs.
The difference can be, as they say, ‘contextual’.

By: Rayne

Rayne — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:04:17 +0000

Suspect? Look at all the unintentional holes they patch every damned month. There’s a point at which so many bugs must be features.

By: Synoia

Synoia — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:40:22 +0000

Technically correct. There are bandwidth issues if one taps the complete US phone system from a central point. And the network is a mesh, not a start with a single routing point.

By: Synoia

Synoia — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:32:31 +0000

You assume there are no backdoors in windows. We suspect there are.

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:29:54 +0000

There are still actions the government wants quashed, e.g. MO, ME, VT, NJ. Here is a Walker 2007 denial of the government’s request to squelch investigations in those states; and here a LichtblauRisenEtAl article about at least one case which began in an eastern state re a mirror noc.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:06:47 +0000

Let’s shine the light on all the spigots we can accurately identify.
Right now I know about 2. The magic door in SFO and now the Quantico Circuit.

You can add San Diego, Los Angeles, San Jose, Seattle and Atlanta into that list.

By: Rayne

Rayne — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:54:37 +0000

The entire network was supposed to be hardened after 9/11. We spent huge gobs of money on it.

Some guy who likely has NO security clearance was allowed to get close enough to see this “Quantico Circuit”, let alone the circuit exists without any rational, reasonable form of security on it.

Everything the administration did to harden the nation’s information infrastructure has to be viewed with complete skepticism at this point.

If I were Pasdar, I’d be terrified; I’d have papers on my person and locked away with trusted resources.

It’s every bit as bad as we thought, and likely far worse. There’s NOTHING that any commercial entity like Google could do that’s more egregious than this, short of publishing personal information like our health care data.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:45:45 +0000

The Surf Dudes are our best weapon! First Randiego and friends save the Trestles beach; now they’re kicking Eric Prince and Blackwater’s ass! Clearly all we need to do is replace Pelosi, Hoyer, Emmanuel and Reid with Surfriders!

By: BooRadley

BooRadley — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:29:40 +0000

dcgaffer, really appreciate your’s (and others) lucid explanations of extremely complex and changing telecom technologies.

By: klynn

klynn — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:17:52 +0000

bmaz will NOT be surprised…

bmaz, LHP, Mary anyone one of our LB’s… got a question:

If we have written statements from telecoms and CCIA stating no immunity needed and we have whistle blowers (ATT, Verizon, Qwest)but congress votes to pass immunity because they still state the arguement “telecoms need it,” does that not give us recourse?