georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03...wer-f.html

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.

"What I thought was alarming is how this carrier ended up essentially allowing a third party outside their organization to have unfettered access to their environment," Babak Pasdar, now CEO of New York-based Bat Blue told Threat Level. "I wanted to put some access controls around it; they vehemently denied it. And when I wanted to put some logging around it, they denied that."

Just how far does the rabbit hole go?

Here's a bunch of stories about our government spying on us illegally and violating the constitution:

NSA spying

FBI spying

House slightly standing up to Bush about spying

More on the House

NSA tracking everything we do on the internet

ACLU writes about House standing against Spying

Nazis rise to power by using "security" to fight "terrorism"

Reichstag fire "terrorism" results in suspension of civil liberties

Enjoy! There go our civil liberties.

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Ben Franklin