Considering that Bell Labs was an integral part of the original architecture of the DARPA internet project well before ATT had all the baby Bells pulled of them as part of antitrust suit. This would not be a surprise to veteran IT engineers.
They were separate companies with different prices sharing the same common use wires, like different delivery company trucks share the same roads. Tell me more about how it was all fake.
Actually,, it was UUNET. I was a leading WAN engineer for Tier 2 providers in the 90s and witnessed the growth of UUNET and its transition to Worldcom->MCI->Verizon. ATT was a different pipe and was important but not dominant in the 90s growth. ATT was one of 5 major Tier 1 providers at the time: UUNET, Cerf, ATT, Sprint, and Exodus.
More like the NSA is AT&T's military sector division. AT&T came out first. And the article says NSA relies on AT&T's overt extreme willingness to give NSA what it wants/needs to spy on us.
And for the record, ALL of the phone providers do this, and have done this waaaay before Snowden outed them all.
The NSA are the good people, correct?
Considering that Bell Labs was an integral part of the original architecture of the DARPA internet project well before ATT had all the baby Bells pulled of them as part of antitrust suit. This would not be a surprise to veteran IT engineers.
They were separate companies with different prices sharing the same common use wires, like different delivery company trucks share the same roads. Tell me more about how it was all fake.
Wow, this puts a lot of things in perspective. Thanks for this.
This goes back long before AT&T and the NSA. US intel has been partnered with communications companies since the beginning - think telegraph.
If you want to understand more of the history, start here: https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic-heritage/center-cryptologic-history/pre-1952-timeline/
Then research this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Chamber
UUNET
Actually,, it was UUNET. I was a leading WAN engineer for Tier 2 providers in the 90s and witnessed the growth of UUNET and its transition to Worldcom->MCI->Verizon. ATT was a different pipe and was important but not dominant in the 90s growth. ATT was one of 5 major Tier 1 providers at the time: UUNET, Cerf, ATT, Sprint, and Exodus.
More like the NSA is AT&T's military sector division. AT&T came out first. And the article says NSA relies on AT&T's overt extreme willingness to give NSA what it wants/needs to spy on us.
And for the record, ALL of the phone providers do this, and have done this waaaay before Snowden outed them all.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/74f9d20f-9ff9-4fad-808f-c7e4245a1725