Whistle-Blower: Feds Have a Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier -- Congress Reacts


WHISTLE-BLOWER: FEDS HAVE A BACKDOOR INTO WIRELESS CARRIER -- CONGRESS REACTS
[SOURCE: Wired, AUTHOR: Kevin Poulsen]
A U.S. government office in Quantico, Virginia, has direct, high-speed access to a major wireless carrier's systems, exposing customers' voice calls, data packets and physical movements to uncontrolled surveillance, according to a computer security consultant who says he worked for the carrier in late 2003.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/whistleblower-f.html

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