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EFF Challenges Telecom Immunity
Morning hearing highlights flaw in FISA Amendments Act
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) website, the group this morning will challenge the constitutionality of a recently passed federal law aimed at granting immunity to telecommunications companies participating in illegal domestic surveillance. At a hearing this morning in San Francisco, the EFF will argue that the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) "improperly attempts to take away Americans' claims arising out of the First and Fourth Amendments, violates the federal government's separation of powers as established in the Constitution, and robs innocent telecom customers of their rights without due process of law."

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Noah Vail
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Noah Vail

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What's Wrong with these Pictures?


In This Building...

In This Room...
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ATT installed this Narus STA 6400
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That copies the data from evey peer to the NSA Sorting Analyzers.
Which peers are hooked into the Narsus STA 6400?

"Peering Links which were "cut-in" in February 2003, including ConXion, Verio, XO, Genuity, Qwest, PAIX, Allegiance, AboveNet, Global Crossing, C&W, UUNET, Level 3, Sprint, Telia, PSINet and Mae West. By the way, Mae West is one of two key internet nodal points in the United States (the other, Mae East, is in Vienna, Virginia)."
»www.infoblog.us/2006/05/ ··· nts.html

Narus,
»www.narus.com/products/i ··· ept.html
»www.narus.com/products/t ··· nce.html
partners with Terremark
»www.terremark.com/about/ ··· ons.aspx
»www.terremark.com/techno ··· ion.aspx
who provides the fiber optic infrastructure that carries our data to the NSA storage and filtering equipment.

OFF TOPIC:
Just cause I found it.
The IP Address 192.31.19.50 belongs to cumulus.centcom.mil, Centcom Tampa. Apparently there's lots of hits from this IP to the blogs who cover the NSA mess.

Here's the wikipedia edits from that IP.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp ··· 31.19.50

I haven't really browsed through them. I just thought it interesting.

NV