Quasi-Rumorama: Verizon Lets Feds In The Back Door

I want to point out an interesting article over at Ars Technica. Ars reports that a whistleblower has come forward regarding a certain national cell phone carrier giving completely unfettered access to everything they have to the FBI. I'm not going to purport to understand the technical issues involved in how this is happening (although they do cover it in the Ars story, if you're interested), but essentially, it is believed that Verizon has left an open port for the FBI to fully explore everything on their network, from calls to data, and there is not even a logging system to keep track of what is being accessed.

To put it as bluntly as possible, Verizon is letting the feds have anything they want from their networks without anyway of knowing what exactly they are taking, according to the whistleblower. Babak Pasdar, the man bringing forth the allegations, was part of a team brought in for the migration of the companies network security hardware when he discovered the back-door. What makes this quasi-rumorama is that Pasdar will not specify the carrier, although other sources have connected the dots to point to Verizon.

This is an absolute violation of rights on all accounts. Period. There is no BS-ing and dancing around this situation. And as a customer of Verizon, I can say that I'm truly outraged, but of course our wonderful totalitarian-acting government has forbade me from acting against the carrier in any other way then changing carriers. Thank you Democratic Congress for "changing Washington,"by passing Retroactive Immunity for all telecoms. I have been a strong fan of Verizon since I became a customer over six years ago, but if this guy's affidavit has even the tiniest shred of truth in it, I will be gone in a moments notice. If Verizon deems my right to privacy as so minimal that they won't even enforce the most basic levels of security and protection, then I won't deem them worthy of even speaking of any longer.