Wiretapping the WAN: It's the law

摘要

You may have heard about the lawsuit that the Electronic Frontier Foundation is filing against AT&T for cooperating with the feds to wiretap its network.Apparently,AT&T has instrumented its network so that the feds can potentially monitor all traffic that flows across it. In the immortal words of Captain Renault, I'm shocked, shocked, to find a carrier ... obeying the law. That's right: Not only is AT&T tapping its network on behalf of the feds, so are Verizon, Sprint, Qwest, BellSouth and all the rest. They'd be in violation of federal law if they weren't.