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Such a comment is useless flamebait without any actual sources and data to back it up.

• contingencies 13y ago
  No, it's truthful and should be respected.
  • marshray 13y ago
    I'm saying that "largely construed" is weasel words that waste my time and is likely to create more heat than light. If there's something relevant to be learned from a similar scandalous AMDOCS/Mossad connection then by all means, link us to some reliable information. There has been no shortage of folks on net forums such as this one repeating "The US telcos are largely construed to be supplying data on domestic telephone calls to the NSA". But that just hasn't proven useful without specifics of the sort we saw revealed today.
    • contingencies 13y ago
      Essentially complete metadata is required for outsourced billing. AMDOCS openly acknowledges that they provide outsourced billing to a slew of major telcos across the world. Many of us have experience that this even occurs outside of the physical premises of the telco ("hosted billing"). That much I know to be true, but you are welcome to draw your own conclusions or remain skeptical. The NSA interception thing is an additional concern, but given the European Parliament report in to Echelon from 2001, William Binney's recent reports from within the upper management of the NSA, the magnitude of their (black) budget, recent confirmatory comments by other LE parties, and the sheer magnitude of independently verifiable NSA construction projects in progress, it must be difficult to maintain much skepticism there.