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- 05-12-2006, 10:10 AM #16John NavasGuest
Re: Cingular call details and the NSA?
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In <[email protected]> on 12 May 2006
08:34:26 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>I called Cingular this morning and they claim that they are not
>participating.
That may have been in reference to the earlier uproar:
"Some companies helped the NSA, but which?"
<http://news.com.com/Some+companies+helped+the+NSA,+but+which/2100-1028_3-6035305.html>
The News.com survey, started Jan. 25, found that wireless providers
and cable companies were the most likely to distance themselves from
the NSA. Cingular Wireless, Comcast, Cox Communications, Sprint
Nextel and T-Mobile said they had not turned over information or
opened their networks to the NSA without being required by law.
Companies that are backbone providers, or which operate undersea
cables spanning the ocean, were among the least likely to respond.
AT&T, Cable & Wireless, Global Crossing, Level 3, NTT Communications,
SAVVIS Communications and Verizon Communications chose not to answer
the questions posed to them.
In this case there appears to be no such clear cut assurance:
"NSA report renews data mining concerns"
<http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12745304/>
It remains unclear whether other communications providers have been
asked for their call logs or billing records.
Verizon Wireless spokesman Jeffrey Nelson definitively said his
company was "not involved in this situation." His counterparts at
Cingular -- an AT&T/BellSouth joint venture -- and Sprint Nextel Corp.
were less explicit and did not deny any participation.
In a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press Thursday, T-Mobile
USA Inc. said it does not participate "in any NSA program for
warrant-less surveillance and acquisition of call records, and
T-Mobile has not provided any such access to communications or
customer records."
Even without cell phone carriers’ help, of course, calls between
wireless subscribers and Verizon, AT&T and BellSouth landlines
presumably would be captured.
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- 05-12-2006, 01:36 PM #17Isaiah BeardGuest
Re: Cingular call details and the NSA?
John Navas wrote:
>
> Perhaps, but not necessarily -- while at&t and BellSouth are the parents of
> Cingular, they don't directly "run" it
Enron didn't directly "run" LJM I and II, either. Yet they were
instrumental in the same activities. It's all semantics, really.
Regardless, even if Cingular was waxing angelic, they still had to
contract SOMEONE for backhaul. I doubt they would have favored Sprint
or Qwest when AT&T/BellSouth had facilities readily at hand.
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- 05-12-2006, 01:42 PM #18Isaiah BeardGuest
Re: Cingular call details and the NSA?
John Navas wrote:
> Even without cell phone carriers’ help, of course, calls between
> wireless subscribers and Verizon, AT&T and BellSouth landlines
> presumably would be captured.
Exactly my point. Once you have two or three of the largest regional
and national telecom companies turning over records voluntarily, whether
or not the smaller players want to take part starts to become moot. A
good portion of their traffic will be captured and logged anyway.
Sigman and Seidenberg's denials are a great PR move, an ingenious piece
of spin. Of course they didn't directly participate in this program:
they didn't really HAVE to, because their parent companies - who also
happen to be their preferred backhaul vendors - were doing the deed for
them.
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- 05-12-2006, 03:03 PM #19Mike LevyGuest
Re: Cingular call details and the NSA?
On Thu, 11 May 2006 18:19:18 GMT, John Navas
<[email protected]> wrote:
>[POSTED TO alt.cellular.cingular - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE]
>
>In <[email protected]> on Thu, 11 May 2006
>10:16:54 -0700, Joshua Putnam <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Looking at today's revelations about craven phone company executives
>>going along with NSA snooping on phone records, I will admit to
>>having found one good thing to say about Qwest, which refused to
>>violate privacy laws for the NSA's convenience unless the NSA could
>>provide either FISA court authorization or a letter from the U.S.
>>Attorney General authorizing the program. (NSA refused to document
>>the legal basis for their program, they say, because they didn't
>>expect they'd *get* approval from FISA or the Attorney General. But
>>they demand cooperation anyway.)
>>
>>So, as a patriotic American, I'd like to know whether my cell phone
>>company is run by cowards or law-abiding citizens.
>>
>>Coverage of this story is different in different places, so far I
>>haven't seen any mention of which cell phone companies have
>>capitulated to the NSA and which are operating within the laws and
>>Constitution.
>>
>>Has anyone seen a listing of which cell phone companies, if any, are
>>ethical enough to resist the NSA's effort to track every phone call
>>in the country?
>
>AT&T and BellSouth been cooperating with the NSA for some time, so it's a good
>bet that Cingular has or will do that also. Likewise Verizon. See
>"NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls"
><http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA>
>No mention is made of any other carriers.
Verizon Communications only owns 55% of Verizon Wireless. The
corporations are distinct and have their own CEOs. As such, saying
Verizon (or Verizon Communications) has done this does NOT imply
Verizon Wireless has as well. The other 45% is owned by Vodafone.
VZW is a privately-owned company, it's not publicly traded like
Verizon (or Verizon Communications).
- 05-12-2006, 04:01 PM #20DecaturTxCowboyGuest
Re: Cingular call details and the NSA?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/wa...rtner=homepage
"We're not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of
innocent Americans," Mr. Bush said before leaving for a commencement
address in Mississippi.
The USA Today article on Thursday went further, saying that the N.S.A.
had created an enormous database of all calls made by customers of the
three phone companies in an effort to compile a log of "every call ever
made" within this country.
Take your pick....
Reminds me of a picture of a '50s style housewife with her hands to her
face exclaiming, "The ***** said WHAT???"
- 05-12-2006, 04:59 PM #21RNessGuest
Re: Cingular call details and the NSA?
An important note:
Backhaul is totally different than calls and call records.
Backhaul are simply data circuits. T1s, DS3s OCX, etc, etc.
Just dumb pipes connecting point A and point B. There isn't
really any way, short of actual sniffing, to peek at actual traffic.
It is CALL records that is being discussed here. Not the traffic
on the pipes themselves.
The data mining of a call record DATABASE.
Apples and bowling balls....
"Isaiah Beard" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> Most wireless companies must contract with an LEC in the area for backhaul to their cell sites, meaning calls could
> have been carried on those networks and thus logged.
- 05-12-2006, 06:04 PM #22JerGuest
Re: Cingular call details and the NSA?
Isaiah Beard wrote:
> John Navas wrote:
>
>> Even without cell phone carriers’ help, of course, calls between
>> wireless subscribers and Verizon, AT&T and BellSouth landlines
>> presumably would be captured.
>
>
> Exactly my point. Once you have two or three of the largest regional
> and national telecom companies turning over records voluntarily, whether
> or not the smaller players want to take part starts to become moot. A
> good portion of their traffic will be captured and logged anyway.
>
> Sigman and Seidenberg's denials are a great PR move, an ingenious piece
> of spin. Of course they didn't directly participate in this program:
> they didn't really HAVE to, because their parent companies - who also
> happen to be their preferred backhaul vendors - were doing the deed for
> them.
>
>
>
at&t is 60% owner of Cingular, and these two companies are separate
operating entities without operational shares at all levels of
management. Despite the recent comments about NSA not needing a warrant
to obtain call activity records, Cingular has always considered even
this meager access level to require a Title 1 warrant in other (prior)
situations. However, as you said, given the capture scope of other
"program" participants, Cingular's denial may be effectively smallish in
the overall scheme.
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- 05-12-2006, 06:07 PM #23JerGuest
Re: Cingular call details and the NSA?
RNess wrote:
> An important note:
>
> Backhaul is totally different than calls and call records.
> Backhaul are simply data circuits. T1s, DS3s OCX, etc, etc.
> Just dumb pipes connecting point A and point B. There isn't
> really any way, short of actual sniffing, to peek at actual traffic.
>
> It is CALL records that is being discussed here. Not the traffic
> on the pipes themselves.
>
> The data mining of a call record DATABASE.
>
> Apples and bowling balls....
An absolutely true and spot on comment.
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- 05-12-2006, 10:49 PM #24Guest
Re: Cingular call details and the NSA?
>I have nothing to hide in my own phone traffic, so I'm not
>particularly bothered that other companies may have illegally
If I worked for a car company, say, I'd jump at the chance to give a
phone company a list of phone numbers of recent buyers, and get back a
list of all the phone numbers they've talked to since, so I could give my
dealers some good prospects. If I worked at the White House I sure
would like to give them a list of everyone who called praising something
and get back a list of all the contacts of such folks, for followup.
Or in reverse, given a highly-connected-group of phone numbers of people
who I did not know much about, it would be very nice to find contacts
I did have data on who could give me entre into the group. It's a
whole new source of a whole new kind of information. #.#
- 05-13-2006, 11:21 AM #25John NavasGuest
Re: Cingular call details and the NSA?
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In <[email protected]> on Fri, 12 May 2006 19:04:20 -0500,
Jer <[email protected]> wrote:
>Isaiah Beard wrote:
>> Sigman and Seidenberg's denials are a great PR move, an ingenious piece
>> of spin. Of course they didn't directly participate in this program:
>> they didn't really HAVE to, because their parent companies - who also
>> happen to be their preferred backhaul vendors - were doing the deed for
>> them.
>
>at&t is 60% owner of Cingular, and these two companies are separate
>operating entities without operational shares at all levels of
>management. Despite the recent comments about NSA not needing a warrant
>to obtain call activity records, Cingular has always considered even
>this meager access level to require a Title 1 warrant in other (prior)
>situations. However, as you said, given the capture scope of other
>"program" participants, Cingular's denial may be effectively smallish in
>the overall scheme.
Cingular hasn't issued an actual denial:
"NSA report renews data mining concerns"
<http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12745304/>
Verizon Wireless spokesman Jeffrey Nelson definitively said his
company was "not involved in this situation." His counterparts at
Cingular -- an AT&T/BellSouth joint venture -- and Sprint Nextel Corp.
were less explicit and did not deny any participation.
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John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>
- 05-13-2006, 11:24 AM #26John NavasGuest
Re: Cingular call details and the NSA?
[POSTED TO alt.cellular.cingular - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE]
In <[email protected]> on Fri, 12 May 2006 19:07:17 -0500,
Jer <[email protected]> wrote:
>RNess wrote:
>> An important note:
>>
>> Backhaul is totally different than calls and call records.
>> Backhaul are simply data circuits. T1s, DS3s OCX, etc, etc.
>> Just dumb pipes connecting point A and point B. There isn't
>> really any way, short of actual sniffing, to peek at actual traffic.
>>
>> It is CALL records that is being discussed here. Not the traffic
>> on the pipes themselves.
>>
>> The data mining of a call record DATABASE.
>>
>> Apples and bowling balls....
>
>An absolutely true and spot on comment.
So they say. You believe them ... why?
In any event, call information can of course be mined by backhaul providers.
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- 05-13-2006, 12:33 PM #27Brant BassettGuest
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- 05-13-2006, 09:46 PM #28DecaturTxCowboyGuest
Re: Cingular call details and the NSA?
I signed up for the new NSA Friends and Family plan
- 05-14-2006, 07:10 AM #29JerGuest
Re: Cingular call details and the NSA?
John Navas wrote:
> [POSTED TO alt.cellular.cingular - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE]
>
> In <[email protected]> on Fri, 12 May 2006 19:07:17 -0500,
> Jer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>RNess wrote:
>>
>>>An important note:
>>>
>>>Backhaul is totally different than calls and call records.
>>>Backhaul are simply data circuits. T1s, DS3s OCX, etc, etc.
>>>Just dumb pipes connecting point A and point B. There isn't
>>>really any way, short of actual sniffing, to peek at actual traffic.
>>>
>>>It is CALL records that is being discussed here. Not the traffic
>>>on the pipes themselves.
>>>
>>>The data mining of a call record DATABASE.
>>>
>>>Apples and bowling balls....
>>
>>An absolutely true and spot on comment.
>
>
> So they say. You believe them ... why?
I'm experienced, and know what's possible from a technical and
logistical perspective.
>
> In any event, call information can of course be mined by backhaul providers.
>
A backhaul transport provider wouldn't have access to any SS7 data nor
other call control functions beyond their own network - an incomplete
picture. In order to have a complete picture, virtually every backhaul
route would have to be sniffed, and all the collected bits wouldhave to
be sifted and reassembled after the call event. Let's be realistic,
nobody really cares how the call was transported - only that the call
event occurred - and only the call origination point has this info,
whether the call was completed or not. The NSA, and others, already has
access to that.
The part that bothers me about all this is... access to detailed call
records (historical) ordinarily requires a Title 1 warrant. A warrant
such as this is available from a variety of sources, including FISA.
From what I've heard, the NSA didn't even attempt to get a warrant.
Why is that? If they did attempt but failed to receive one, why isn't
someone talking about that? If they had a warrant, they'd be completely
legal with their plan and we wouldn't be having this conversation.
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- 05-14-2006, 10:18 AM #30John NavasGuest
Re: Cingular call details and the NSA?
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In <[email protected]> on Sun, 14 May 2006 08:10:37 -0500,
Jer <[email protected]> wrote:
>John Navas wrote:
>>
>> In <[email protected]> on Fri, 12 May 2006 19:07:17 -0500,
>> Jer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>RNess wrote:
>>>
>>>>An important note:
>>>>
>>>>Backhaul is totally different than calls and call records.
>>>>Backhaul are simply data circuits. T1s, DS3s OCX, etc, etc.
>>>>Just dumb pipes connecting point A and point B. There isn't
>>>>really any way, short of actual sniffing, to peek at actual traffic.
>>>>
>>>>It is CALL records that is being discussed here. Not the traffic
>>>>on the pipes themselves.
>>>>
>>>>The data mining of a call record DATABASE.
>>>>
>>>>Apples and bowling balls....
>>>
>>>An absolutely true and spot on comment.
>>
>> So they say. You believe them ... why?
>
>I'm experienced, and know what's possible from a technical and
>logistical perspective.
Different issue -- my question was about only examining call records, not the
calls themselves.
>> In any event, call information can of course be mined by backhaul providers.
>
>A backhaul transport provider wouldn't have access to any SS7 data nor
>other call control functions beyond their own network - an incomplete
>picture. In order to have a complete picture, virtually every backhaul
>route would have to be sniffed, and all the collected bits wouldhave to
>be sifted and reassembled after the call event. Let's be realistic,
>nobody really cares how the call was transported - only that the call
>event occurred - and only the call origination point has this info,
>whether the call was completed or not. The NSA, and others, already has
>access to that.
Backhaul carriers have access to all the necessary information.
>The part that bothers me about all this is... access to detailed call
>records (historical) ordinarily requires a Title 1 warrant. A warrant
>such as this is available from a variety of sources, including FISA.
> From what I've heard, the NSA didn't even attempt to get a warrant.
>Why is that? If they did attempt but failed to receive one, why isn't
>someone talking about that? If they had a warrant, they'd be completely
>legal with their plan and we wouldn't be having this conversation.
The story is that NSA didn't ask for fear it would be turned down.
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