Posts Tagged ‘spy’

NSA’s Lucky Break: How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World

2007/10/11/1411

RTFA: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/1…

Leading House Democrats introduced the so-called RESTORE Act (.pdf) Tuesday that allows the nation’s spies to maintain permanent eavesdropping stations inside United States switching centers. Telecom and internet experts interviewed by Wired News say the bill will give the NSA legal access to a torrent of foreign phone calls and internet traffic that travels through American soil on its way someplace else.

Hmmm…