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16th June 2013, 08:08 AM
But that was false for American tech companies. Why should we assume that Israeli-run firms would be less cooperative with their own nation’s intelligence community? Indeed, Israel’s booming high-tech sector appears to be intimately related to its spy works, just as Silicon Valley emerged out of America’s Cold War efforts.
In 2012, James Bamford reported in Wired:
According to a former Verizon employee briefed on the program, Verint, owned by Comverse Technology, taps the communication lines at Verizon, which I first reported in my book The Shadow Factory in 2008.…At AT&T the wiretapping rooms are powered by software and hardware from Narus, now owned by Boeing, a discovery made by A&T whistleblower Mark Klein in 2004.
What is especially troubling is that both companies have had extensive ties to Israel, as well as links to that country’s intelligence service, a country with a long and aggressive history of spying on the U.S.
http://takimag.com/article/does_israel_have_a_backdoor_to_us_intelligence_ste ve_sailer#axzz2WOLRYpMm
http://takimag.com/article/does_israel_have_a_backdoor_to_us_intelligence_ste ve_sailer#axzz2WOLRYpMm
In 2012, James Bamford reported in Wired:
According to a former Verizon employee briefed on the program, Verint, owned by Comverse Technology, taps the communication lines at Verizon, which I first reported in my book The Shadow Factory in 2008.…At AT&T the wiretapping rooms are powered by software and hardware from Narus, now owned by Boeing, a discovery made by A&T whistleblower Mark Klein in 2004.
What is especially troubling is that both companies have had extensive ties to Israel, as well as links to that country’s intelligence service, a country with a long and aggressive history of spying on the U.S.
http://takimag.com/article/does_israel_have_a_backdoor_to_us_intelligence_ste ve_sailer#axzz2WOLRYpMm
http://takimag.com/article/does_israel_have_a_backdoor_to_us_intelligence_ste ve_sailer#axzz2WOLRYpMm