Wired has published the evidence against AT&T in the class action lawsuit filed by EFF.
The evidence suggests AT&T has installed cable splitters on its backbone optic fibre cables to “copy” Internet traffic.
The evidence shows that not only are splitters in place on AT&T’s own network, but even more seriously on the backbone that routes traffic from/to AT&T’s peering partners. AT&T is illegally tapping its competitors network traffic effectively allowing whoever is in the receiving end of that data to wiretap all US Internet traffic.
Ingenius AT&T.
Let’s see…accomplish in illegal wiretapping, violating peering contracts, violating their own customers’ privacy, violating the privacy of AT&T’s competitors’.
If I had a peering contract with AT&T, I’d be on the phone with AT&T right about now informing AT&T that all peering agreements with AT&T are void as of 5 minutes ago. I’d cut all peer connections to AT&T (after arranging alternative ones) and then I’d sue AT&T for damages.
The individual court documents are available at:
- Study Group 3, LGX/Splitter Wiring, San Francisco – describes AT&T’s planning of installing the cable splitters
- SIMS, Splitter Cut-In and Test Procedure – describes the procedures to install the cable splitters
- Cut-In and Test Procedure – describes the procedures to install and test the cable splitters
-TPP
