Point, Click … Eavesdrop

Point, Click … Eavesdrop: How the FBI Wiretap Net Operates

…The network allows an FBI agent in New York, for example, to remotely set up a wiretap on a cell phone based in Sacramento, California, and immediately learn the phone’s location, then begin receiving conversations, text messages and voicemail pass codes in New York. With a few keystrokes, the agent can route the recordings to language specialists for translation…

…More than 100 government officials in Greece learned in 2005 that their cell phones had been bugged, after an unknown hacker exploited CALEA-like functionality in wireless-carrier Vodafone’s network. The infiltrator used the switches’ wiretap-management software to send copies of officials’ phone calls and text messages to other phones, while simultaneously hiding the taps from auditing software…

…A wiretap is, by definition, a vulnerability from the point of the third party. The question is, can you control it?…

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The USA government now has the technology to listen in on almost all forms of communication. Almost nothing is private.

Is this really the world we wish to create?

I need to find a way out of this madness.