The MAE are compromised
MAE West (San Jose) is known to be tapped, and the documentation suggests that the other MAE sites, Washington D.C., New York, Miami, Dallas, Chicago, San Jose, and Los Angeles areas are tapped as well.
This is wicked bad. The MAEs in Paris and Frankfurt may be tapped as well, in violation of German and French law, as well as US law. Its all data. All of it. What little is left is simply no matter at all.
Via testimony of an AT&T network engineer cited in support of the motion by Chris Dodd and Russ Feingold.
Update: Reid pulled the FISA bill until after the New Year.
