Swordsmyth
06-26-2018, 01:39 AM
A new report from The Intercept (https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/) sheds light on the NSA's close relationship with communications provider AT&T.
The Intercept identified eight facilities across the U.S. that function as hubs for AT&T's (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/at-t/) efforts to collaborate with the intelligence agency. The site first identified one potential hub (https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/the-nsas-spy-hub-in-new-york-hidden-in-plain-sight/) of this kind in 2017 in lower Manhattan.
The report reveals that eight AT&T data facilities in the U.S. are regarded as high-value sites to the NSA for giving the agency direct "backbone" access to raw data that passes through, including emails, web browsing, social media and any other form of unencrypted online activity. The NSA uses the web of eight AT&T hubs for a surveillance operation code-named FAIRVIEW, a program previously reported by The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array-of-internet-traffic.html). The program, first established in 1985, "involves tapping into international telecommunications cables, routers, and switches" and only coordinates directly with AT&T and not the other major U.S. mobile carriers.
AT&T's deep involvement with the NSA monitoring program operated under the code name SAGUARO. Messaging, email and other web traffic accessed through the program was made searchable through XKEYSCORE, one of the NSA's more infamous search-powered surveillance tools.
More at: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/t-collaborates-nsa-spying-secretive-193841763.html
The Intercept identified eight facilities across the U.S. that function as hubs for AT&T's (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/at-t/) efforts to collaborate with the intelligence agency. The site first identified one potential hub (https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/the-nsas-spy-hub-in-new-york-hidden-in-plain-sight/) of this kind in 2017 in lower Manhattan.
The report reveals that eight AT&T data facilities in the U.S. are regarded as high-value sites to the NSA for giving the agency direct "backbone" access to raw data that passes through, including emails, web browsing, social media and any other form of unencrypted online activity. The NSA uses the web of eight AT&T hubs for a surveillance operation code-named FAIRVIEW, a program previously reported by The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array-of-internet-traffic.html). The program, first established in 1985, "involves tapping into international telecommunications cables, routers, and switches" and only coordinates directly with AT&T and not the other major U.S. mobile carriers.
AT&T's deep involvement with the NSA monitoring program operated under the code name SAGUARO. Messaging, email and other web traffic accessed through the program was made searchable through XKEYSCORE, one of the NSA's more infamous search-powered surveillance tools.
More at: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/t-collaborates-nsa-spying-secretive-193841763.html