Comments on: Cheney, Specter, clash http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9015 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9015/comment-page-1#comment-46190 Reader's Write Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:13:55 +0000 #comment-46190 Let me fill in here. When the telephone company allows you to place a call you get billed for it. How does this happen? Attached to the call is a whole slew of data that is not just used to bill you. This data is only partially used by the phone companies. Collectively this data (and there is a name for it) is used to establish routing and monitoring of all the systems that make up the network. This data is what tracks the dropping of calls, quality of calls, routing, time to connect and disconnect you name it. If you tap into this data you can on a very elemental level set up conditions that initiate a recording. But because of the amount of data associated with each call and collectively making up groups of whatever you might dream, any function can be initiated from any bit of this data. So the phone companies not only know when to move traffic onto other systems they now know what data to move to NSA. ie. Tomorrow all calls moving out of Alabama lasting .5 seconds at 6pm can be filtered through and compared with all .5 sec calls coming in from SE Asia to Oregon and moved onto another route to determine if they were dropped or actually a hang up was made. The rest of the iceberg is left up to the readers imagination. Let me fill in here. When the telephone company allows you to place a call you get billed for it. How does this happen? Attached to the call is a whole slew of data that is not just used to bill you. This data is only partially used by the phone companies. Collectively this data (and there is a name for it) is used to establish routing and monitoring of all the systems that make up the network. This data is what tracks the dropping of calls, quality of calls, routing, time to connect and disconnect you name it.

If you tap into this data you can on a very elemental level set up conditions that initiate a recording. But because of the amount of data associated with each call and collectively making up groups of whatever you might dream, any function can be initiated from any bit of this data. So the phone companies not only know when to move traffic onto other systems they now know what data to move to NSA.

ie. Tomorrow all calls moving out of Alabama lasting .5 seconds at 6pm can be filtered through and compared with all .5 sec calls coming in from SE Asia to Oregon and moved onto another route to determine if they were dropped or actually a hang up was made. The rest of the iceberg is left up to the readers imagination.

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