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Is The NSA Snooping Your Cell?

Short answer, apparently yes. Chris Soghoian has a rather interesting article that he posted yesterday where he dug deeper into the warrantless wiretaps.

From CNET:

A recent article in the London Review of Books revealed that a number of private companies now sell off-the-shelf data-mining solutions to government spies interested in analyzing mobile-phone calling records and real-time location information. These companies include ThorpeGlen, VASTech, Kommlabs, and Aqsacom–all of which sell “passive probing” data-mining services to governments around the world.

ThorpeGlen, a U.K.-based firm, offers intelligence analysts a graphical interface to the company’s mobile-phone location and call-record data-mining software. Want to determine a suspect’s “community of interest”? Easy. Want to learn if a single person is swapping SIM cards or throwing away phones (yet still hanging out in the same physical location)? No problem.

To read a demo of the product there is this link as well as mirrors at Harvard and here. A very interesting read. I recommend checking out the full piece.

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