Comments | eriktheplaid: It’s Dead, Jim

eriktheplaid

It’s Dead, Jim

Apr 11, 2008 08:44

[Cross-posted from my MovableType Blog]

My Treo 650 was acting a little strange during my travails in travel on Tuesday. Wednesday morning it got even weirder, and by noon it stopped working at all.

I’m in Miami for the week, and I feel a bit vulnerable without having the ability to connect with folks, either at home, ( Read more... )

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alicelee April 11 2008, 19:55:32 UTC

Not to take AT&T off the hook -- at all -- but I expect we will eventually confirm that other carriers were just as bad. There has been only one documented case of a CEO pushing back, and he is no longer CEO. It is a surreal set of circumstances that led to public reporting on Qwest refusing to datamine for the NSA. Note the pre-9/11 dates, too.

It's the same story as with airline carriers. Near as I can tell, they are all complicit in turning over passenger data to the government. Some just got caught earlier than others.

eriktheplaid May 2 2008, 08:00:07 UTC

[Argh! LJ has apparently stopped emailing me comments. -ed.]

I suspect you're right about that (and have suspected so for some time), but the unapologetic reaction from AT&T when caught really stuck in my craw. Point "b" was just icing on the cake, too. I don't know if any of the other carriers have started an opt-out program to sell your personal & call data to whomever they damn well feel like.

Oh, and thanks for the link, ISTR reading a reference to that at some point but it's good to have the actual facts. Inasmuch as we can have them, citizen.