http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/#comment-20192 NSA collected pre-9/11 phone calls for analysis | Homeland Stupidity Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:41:47 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/#comment-20192 [...] NSA collected pre-9/11 phone calls for analysis May 25, 2006 @ Michael Hampton → 2 Comments If you received a phone call from the Middle East and, when done, proceeded to make telephone calls to other people within the U.S., you just might be a terrorist, according to a report on the National Security Agency’s telephone record collection program. [...] [...] NSA collected pre-9/11 phone calls for analysis May 25, 2006 @ Michael Hampton → 2 Comments If you received a phone call from the Middle East and, when done, proceeded to make telephone calls to other people within the U.S., you just might be a terrorist, according to a report on the National Security Agency’s telephone record collection program. [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/#comment-8620 EU travellers’ fingerprints to be added to national database - Homeland Stupidity Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:40:16 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/#comment-8620 [...] A noble aim, for sure: who wouldn’t want to strike fear into the hearts of such people? The problem is the fact that such measures so frequently extend far beyond targetting terrorists and other criminals: they are turned against the ordinary, law-abiding public. Not a paranoid thought at all — take the National Security Agency’s monitoring of call records, for example, or the Department of Justice tracking your movements without probable cause. [...] [...] A noble aim, for sure: who wouldn’t want to strike fear into the hearts of such people? The problem is the fact that such measures so frequently extend far beyond targetting terrorists and other criminals: they are turned against the ordinary, law-abiding public. Not a paranoid thought at all — take the National Security Agency’s monitoring of call records, for example, or the Department of Justice tracking your movements without probable cause. [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/#comment-8619 anotmous Sat, 11 Nov 2006 01:51:48 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/#comment-8619 isnt that the doj? isnt that the doj?

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/#comment-8618 BellSouth, Verizon not involved in NSA phone record database - Homeland Stupidity Sat, 01 Jul 2006 13:56:31 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/#comment-8618 [...] The records collected under the program include the telephone number placing the call, the telephone number receiving the call, the time the call was placed, and the duration of the call. [...] [...] The records collected under the program include the telephone number placing the call, the telephone number receiving the call, the time the call was placed, and the duration of the call. [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/#comment-8617 Lawmakers want to hear from Russell Tice - Homeland Stupidity Tue, 13 Jun 2006 01:21:49 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/#comment-8617 [...] Tice will not reveal the details of the programs to the press, saying he could be prosecuted if he does so. But he has said that the programs are different from the terrorist surveillance program revealed in December, and the news reports of telephone call record collection from last month, and were conducted with the full knowledge of former director Gen. Michael Hayden, who is now head of the Central Intelligence Agency. [...] [...] Tice will not reveal the details of the programs to the press, saying he could be prosecuted if he does so. But he has said that the programs are different from the terrorist surveillance program revealed in December, and the news reports of telephone call record collection from last month, and were conducted with the full knowledge of former director Gen. Michael Hayden, who is now head of the Central Intelligence Agency. [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/#comment-8616 Psychopolitik » Warrantless domestic spying update: yet more violations Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:00:52 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/#comment-8616 [...] More on those pen registers from Homeland Stupidity’s Mike Hampton, a former MCI employee: Such a call detail record looks basically like this. (This is an example and does not necessarily correspond to an actual telephone call.) [...] [...] More on those pen registers from Homeland Stupidity’s Mike Hampton, a former MCI employee: Such a call detail record looks basically like this. (This is an example and does not necessarily correspond to an actual telephone call.) [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/#comment-8615 What would James Bond do? - Homeland Stupidity Sat, 27 May 2006 01:27:06 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/#comment-8615 [...] Former NSA analyst turned computer security consultant Ira Winkler, also known as the “modern day James Bond,” denounced the terrorist surveillance program and telephone record collection program as themselves putting the U.S. in danger. Winkler cited the fact that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were being pulled off criminal cases to investigate thousands of leads generated by the programs which ultimately turned up nothing. “We have snakes in our midst, yet we are chasing a mythical beast with completely unreliable evidence,” he wrote. Over the years, I have defended the NSA and its employees as reasonable and law abiding. I was all for invading Afghanistan, deployment of the Clipper Chip and many other controversial government programs. NSA domestic spying is against everything I was ever taught working at the NSA. I might be more for it if there was any credible evidence that this somehow provides useful information that couldn’t otherwise be had. However, the domestic spying program has gotten so massive that the well-established process of getting a warrant cannot be followed — and quantity most certainly doesn’t translate to quality. Quite the opposite. — Ira Winkler [...] [...] Former NSA analyst turned computer security consultant Ira Winkler, also known as the “modern day James Bond,” denounced the terrorist surveillance program and telephone record collection program as themselves putting the U.S. in danger. Winkler cited the fact that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were being pulled off criminal cases to investigate thousands of leads generated by the programs which ultimately turned up nothing. “We have snakes in our midst, yet we are chasing a mythical beast with completely unreliable evidence,” he wrote. Over the years, I have defended the NSA and its employees as reasonable and law abiding. I was all for invading Afghanistan, deployment of the Clipper Chip and many other controversial government programs. NSA domestic spying is against everything I was ever taught working at the NSA. I might be more for it if there was any credible evidence that this somehow provides useful information that couldn’t otherwise be had. However, the domestic spying program has gotten so massive that the well-established process of getting a warrant cannot be followed — and quantity most certainly doesn’t translate to quality. Quite the opposite. — Ira Winkler [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/#comment-8614 BellSouth asks USA TODAY for retraction of NSA story - Homeland Stupidity Fri, 19 May 2006 14:35:10 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/#comment-8614 [...] On Thursday, BellSouth sent a letter to USA TODAY asking the newspaper to “retract the false and unsubstantiated statements” that it printed May 11 regarding the company’s alleged cooperation in a National Security Agency program to collect telephone call detail records of ordinary Americans. [...] [...] On Thursday, BellSouth sent a letter to USA TODAY asking the newspaper to “retract the false and unsubstantiated statements” that it printed May 11 regarding the company’s alleged cooperation in a National Security Agency program to collect telephone call detail records of ordinary Americans. [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/#comment-8613 How telephone call detail record collection works - Homeland Stupidity Wed, 17 May 2006 14:35:34 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/#comment-8613 [...] Last Thursday, USA TODAY published a story saying that AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth have been providing customer telephone call detail records to the National Security Agency, an allegation which BellSouth and Verizon have vigorously denied. Verizon even went so far as to say that it does not record local telephone calls, a claim I personally know to be false. [...] [...] Last Thursday, USA TODAY published a story saying that AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth have been providing customer telephone call detail records to the National Security Agency, an allegation which BellSouth and Verizon have vigorously denied. Verizon even went so far as to say that it does not record local telephone calls, a claim I personally know to be false. [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/#comment-8612 Verizon: We didn’t do it - Homeland Stupidity Wed, 17 May 2006 12:03:32 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/05/12/the-nsa-can-see-your-phone-records-but-you-cant/#comment-8612 [...] On Tuesday, Verizon issued a second statement to news media regarding its alleged role in a National Security Agency program to collect telephone call detail records for most Americans. Verizon denies turning over any call records to the NSA. [...] [...] On Tuesday, Verizon issued a second statement to news media regarding its alleged role in a National Security Agency program to collect telephone call detail records for most Americans. Verizon denies turning over any call records to the NSA. [...]

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