AT&T's illegal Internet traffic wiretapping details are public

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