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CEO of the computer security firm Bat Blue Corporation. He recently revealed that a major telecommunications company may have given the government access to every communication coming through that company’s infrastructure.
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Telecom Whistleblower Discovers Circuit that Allows Access to All Systems on Wireless Carrier — Phone Calls, Text Messages, Emails and More
Babak Pasdar is a computer security expert who was hired in 2003 to help restructure the tech infrastructure at a major wireless telecommunications company. What he found shocked him. The company had set up a system that gave a third party, presumably a governmental entity, access to every communication coming through that company’s infrastructure. This means every email, internet use, document...April 10, 2008 | Story
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