The U.S. Department of Comcast
(posted by Mona)
This, my friends, is corporatism and the military-industrial complex at work; companies so in bed with the federal govt that they do the state’s (dubious) bidding, at the expense of their customers’ trust and for fine pay (links omitted):
Wanna tap e-mail, voice and Web traffic for the government? Well, here’s your chance. Comcast, the country’s second-largest Internet provider, is looking for an engineer to handle “reconnaissance” and “analysis” of “subscriber intelligence” for the company’s “National Security Operations.”
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Since May 2007, all Internet providers have been required to install gear for easy wiretapping under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA. Anyone taking this position, Comcast says, will have to be “knowledgeable with … standards such as CALEA.” (The company is all too happy to “intercept its customers’ communications” for a fee of a thousand dollars, Secrecy News revealed last year.)
(Via here.)
June 12th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
I expect President Obama and the Democratic Congress to repeal CALEA (and other) odious legislation within the first 100 days. I also expect to see them drop the letters C, Z, and Q from the alphabet.