I'd hold off on the Internet rage for a bit and realize that Att has been required by law for many years now to assist in telecom surveillance. CALEA. Look it up.
What is the name of the law that requires them to cancel having conversations they were otherwise looking forward to having, if people wear t-shirts that hurt their feelings?
Probably because they will sound like the comment above? Blind Internet nerd rage uninformed of actual facts doesn't lead to a discussion worth spending your time on.
I think your raging accusations that the nerds protesting against RSA are uninformed of the actual facts is totally off base. Maybe there are some facts that RSA is holding back and refusing to officially inform us of, but I think we already have a pretty good idea of what they are.
And how does your answer "Probably because..." address my question "What is the name of the law...". I am asking you for an actual objective fact, the name of the law, not for you to take a wild guess about "Why" anybody is doing anything.
Are you even replying to the right posting, or just constructing a coatrack on which to hang your off-base raging accusations? Care to try again and cite the name of the law that I asked for?
CALEA spells out LI requirements. Anything CALEA covers, at least for investigations that have been closed, can be openly discussed. Intercepts using LI in the infrastructure are routinely introduced as evidence in trials. The spec docs might be FOUO, but LI capabilities are not a state secret.
Dragnet surveillance in cooperation with the NSA is a whole other thing. It might use some LI facilities, but, in many cases, LI specs for telecom equipment would not cut it for NSA purposes. Hence all the switches having LI capability and the NSA having their own cable taps and backhaul.
