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18 August 2015 Start of ATT Collaboration with NSA Related: 2015-1697.htm NSA Fairview Nassau Shore SIGINT Clusters August 19, 2015 2015-1696.htm NSA-AT&T's ECI Fairview Nassau SIGINT Station August 19, 2015
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:34:36 -0400
Re: [TSCM-L] {6626} From NPR News
Due to the ECI relationship, the technicians for AT&T had to possess
a Top Secret security clearance to actually just access the fiber, because
they might "accidentally" discover the tap, or discover data being diverted
out of the fiber optic multiplexers. By the way, "ECI" means that the company
is given a code name to conceal their involvement in illegal activities.
For example, AT&T has a code name, MCI has a code name, Sprint has one,
and so on. The ECI codename for AT&T is "FAIRVIEW" and also US-990, but
pay attention to the US-990 SIGAD code and it tends to indicate when a code
and alias was initiated. US-990 dates from the day AT&T was broken up.
On that date, each of the "baby bells" was given a ECI codename and SIGAD
code name in the manner of that of AT&T.
The ECI BLARNEY was initiated on AT&T prior to the breakup, and it referes
to the 1977 and 1978 era fiber optic switches that serviced regions, but
which also routed international calls to undersea cables. BLARNEY was the
pre-AT&T network, and after the AT&T break-up, BLARNEY remained in
place for FISA reasons, then a new ECI was created called FAIRVIEW for the
newly-born AT&T that handles undersea fiber optics. But, BLARNEY was
still the program for FISA intercepts on AT&T until the Clinton Era CALEA
program. Of course by that time MCI and Sprint were major carriers, and both
were assigned an ECI for domestic facilities, and then a different ECI for
undersea fiber optics.
As each fiber optic company sought a new undersea cable landing license from
the FCC they were required by the NSA to enter into a classified contract
with the NSA for TWO access point for each undersea cable. The first access
point had to be right at the optical multiplexer which duplicated the optical
pulse into the undersea cable, and then a second into a fiber optic cable
that fed NSA gear. Then, behind the multiplexer and the switching systems
a second access point where the signals exited the cable station to enter
the AT&T, Sprint, MCI, etc backbones.
In this manner the NSA had access to all data entering or exiting the cable
landing station form the United States (illegally), but they also had access
to the cable as it left the United States. The reason for TWO access points
is that data can be relayed form cable station to cable station without exiting
the cable station other then to hop through the cable station and the data
in this case never hits the backbone. Then there is data sent to a cable
station via an ocean route that is routed from another cable station but
without access the network backbone. In each case it creates a "relay effect"
where the cable stations are not "routing through" the station as normal
traffic, but is going round-robin from station to station.
For example, someone in England can launch data out of London, to an undersea
cable to Long Island, which bounces it underseas to NJ, and then undersea
to Florida, and thence to Cuba without the packets ever entering the domestic
backbones of the carriers. So, for the NSA to operate the most effective
network access they have to hit both the front side and the back side of
the undersea cable stations.
Additionally, as there has been some resistance and push back from the carrier
from time to time, the NSA, operating through fake FBI search warrants issued
under FISA has had installed on domestic backbones a fiber optic tap on each
side on the cable landing stations, but these intercept points are only suitable
when the 1983 to 2001 era carriers were "uncooperative" and they started
asking 4th Amendment related questions.
Once 9/11/2001 happened, the Executive branch and the Legistative Branch
bullshit each other to such a massive level that the Patriot Act was passed
(which was done unlawfully), but it forced each of the carriers to provide
full access to all billing records, all account records, all switching records,
dual access to all forms of transmission, and the establishment of special
ECI SIGAD codes across every potential carrier of any signal, of any type,
at any time, with no warrant, and no showing of probable cause.
The next question down the list should be what is the name given to MCI and
what is the SIGAD, and then Comcast, Sprint, and so on.
Clue1: There were FIVE companies who just after 9/11 were blackmailed by
the Oversight Committee on Intelligence into cooperating with the NSA without
ANY warrants being issued. AT&T is one, then MCI, and so on.
There are many questiones to be asked.
-jma
As if we had not known, this kind of "news" would make me throw up.
Report: AT&T Had Long, 'Highly Collaborative' Partnership With NSA
http://n.pr/1IS13rM
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:35:02 -0400
Also a 4ESS is an electronic switch made by AT&T and used by AT&T
in their core infrastructure.
The light or dark green dots are AT&T underseas cable stations, note
the configuation in Hawaii and Puerto Rico, and then the extremely high desnisty
cable landing on the New Jersey Coast line, and which feed right into the
SCIF control point right next to the cable landing systems (code named PineCone).
AT&T is also known by the ECI codeword of "Fairview"
I should also mention that none of this is actually classified, as the system
described if part of an illegal eavesdroppign systems, in contravetion of
the 4th Amendment, and by law faux-classified marking may not be used to
claim that an unlawful actitivity is "classified" because to put it bluntly,
if an illegal system is used for illegal surveillance, and anybody tries
to hide it by claiming it is "classified" the classification is instantly
nullified and it becomes utter unclassified, as classifications can not be
used to cover up illegal eavesdroppign programs.
"Fuck the Pigs"
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