Stumbling into a spy scandal
Wired News
05/17/06
When former AT&T technician Mark Klein learned of a secret room installed in the company's San Francisco internet switching center, he was certain he had stumbled onto the Total Information Awareness program, a Defense Department research project that intended to scour databases across the country for telltale signs of terrorists. Though the program had mostly been terminated by Congress in September 2003, portions of the program were allowed to continue. Klein believed he had found these remnants, according to a written statement by Klein acquired by Wired News...
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70910-0.html?tw=wn_index_2
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
05/17/06
When former AT&T technician Mark Klein learned of a secret room installed in the company's San Francisco internet switching center, he was certain he had stumbled onto the Total Information Awareness program, a Defense Department research project that intended to scour databases across the country for telltale signs of terrorists. Though the program had mostly been terminated by Congress in September 2003, portions of the program were allowed to continue. Klein believed he had found these remnants, according to a written statement by Klein acquired by Wired News...
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70910-0.html?tw=wn_index_2
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 18. Mai, 15:45
