[Cryptography] "Spy Agencies Urge Caution on Phone Deal"

[grarpamp@gmail.com (grarpamp)]

Relevant, at Cryptome:

Review of Sec requirements for LNPA's...
http://cryptome.org/2014/09/neustar-chertoff-techdirt-14-0930.pdf

Also note Neustar spawned from Lockheed.

> Date: Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:51 PM
> Subject: [Cryptography] "Spy Agencies Urge Caution on Phone Deal"
> To: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
>
> Not directly crypto-related, but an example of the tangle of
> relationships that drive surveillance:
> ...
> network/database - oddly never named in the article - that "rout[es]
> millions of phone calls and text messages in the United States".
> ...
> A small Virginia company named Neustar created the system and has
> managed it ever since.  Recently, the major carriers recommended to
> the FCC that Neustar be replaced by Telcordia, an American subsidiary
> of Ericsson, which allegedly can do the job more cheaply.  The
> "intelligence community" has been pushed to leave the job in Neustar's
> ...
> Neustar, obviously no stranger to the Washington inside game, has
> hired good ol' Michael Chertoff to represent them.
> ...
> The bullshit and inside baseball and lobbying here runs so deep you
> can't see bottom.  And underneath it all, another piece of the vast
> tapping network we've built in the US in the last 12 or so years is
> revealed, just a little bit.