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Six governments tap Vodafone calls
- kibbleznbits 12y agoSix governments. Six! And each of them likely had to develop its own infrastructure for requesting, executing, processing, retaining, and searching the taps. Tapping as a Service, anyone? Is Palantir already on this?
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- ntumlin 12y agoShowHN: How I disrupted the phone tapping market with agile javascript.
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- ThinkBeat 12y agoIt no longer seems rational to believe that any electronic or digital means of communication is private.
- kbenson 12y agoIt no longer seems rational to believe that any electronic or digital means of communication where you do not control the encryption is private. It still may not be private in some cases, but at least it's rational at that point...
- mpyne 12y ago"In a small number of countries the law dictates that specific agencies and authorities must have direct access to an operator's network, bypassing any form of operational control over lawful interception on the part of the operator," Or in other words, what Greenwald and Snowden claimed PRISM did. I say "claimed" since PRISM doesn't actually do this. Also the article specifically noted that the U.S. was not one of the 6, since Vodafone doesn't operate there. So that leaves Europe and the rest of the world...
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- dang 12y agoA dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7857632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7857632.