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Jun. 29th, 2006
How to tell if the NSA is spying on you
Jun. 29th, 2006 02:22 amCheck this out
At a command prompt - type tracert followed by whatever website you want to examine. Here is what my output looks like when I did a traceroute to nsa.gov:
tracert nsa.gov
Tracing route to nsa.gov [12.110.110.204] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms WRT54G [192.168.1.1]
2 12 ms 11 ms * wa-pullman-cuda1i-gate.losaca.adelphia.net [68.69.200.1]
3 14 ms 8 ms * ca-glendora4a-169.stmnca.adelphia.net [24.51.244.169]
4 14 ms 9 ms * 192.168.0.5
5 22 ms 18 ms * so02-00-00.a0.sea90.adelphiacom.net [66.109.12.9]
6 41 ms 38 ms * so03-01-00.c0.sjc75.adelphiacom.net [66.109.3.241]
7 38 ms 40 ms * g1-00-00-00.p0.sjc75.adelphiacom.net [66.109.3.194]
8 66 ms 66 ms 67 ms 65.57.86.17
9 66 ms 64 ms 66 ms ae-23-56.car3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.68.123.173]
10 45 ms * 42 ms att-level3-oc48.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.0.227.30]
11 105 ms 102 ms 106 ms tbr2-p012301.sffca.ip.att.net [12.123.12.29]
12 106 ms 107 ms 100 ms tbr1-cl2.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.10.41]
13 104 ms 100 ms 102 ms tbr1-cl4.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.122.10.29]
14 117 ms 104 ms 104 ms ar2-a3120s6.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.123.8.65]
15 106 ms 107 ms 109 ms 12.127.209.218
16 111 ms 114 ms 109 ms 12.110.110.131
17.....
Now apparently the line you want to look for in a traceroute report is sffca.ip.att.net. If it's present above or below any non-AT&T entry, then according to the allegations of Marc Klein (an expired hired by the EFF to support EFF claims that AT&T is cooperating with the NSA to spy on you), that means your packets are being copied and examined by the government, after passing through an OC-48 switch AT&T tapped in late February, 2003. BTW- that is a HUGE amount of Internet traffic. OC-48 lines are gigantic.
And assuming Klein is correct and AT&T has installed listening posts all over the country, seeing att.net anywhere in a trace route report should make you feel a little paranoid.
At a command prompt - type tracert followed by whatever website you want to examine. Here is what my output looks like when I did a traceroute to nsa.gov:
tracert nsa.gov
Tracing route to nsa.gov [12.110.110.204] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms WRT54G [192.168.1.1]
2 12 ms 11 ms * wa-pullman-cuda1i-gate.losaca.adelphia.net [68.69.200.1]
3 14 ms 8 ms * ca-glendora4a-169.stmnca.adelphia.net [24.51.244.169]
4 14 ms 9 ms * 192.168.0.5
5 22 ms 18 ms * so02-00-00.a0.sea90.adelphiacom.net [66.109.12.9]
6 41 ms 38 ms * so03-01-00.c0.sjc75.adelphiacom.net [66.109.3.241]
7 38 ms 40 ms * g1-00-00-00.p0.sjc75.adelphiacom.net [66.109.3.194]
8 66 ms 66 ms 67 ms 65.57.86.17
9 66 ms 64 ms 66 ms ae-23-56.car3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.68.123.173]
10 45 ms * 42 ms att-level3-oc48.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.0.227.30]
11 105 ms 102 ms 106 ms tbr2-p012301.sffca.ip.att.net [12.123.12.29]
12 106 ms 107 ms 100 ms tbr1-cl2.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.10.41]
13 104 ms 100 ms 102 ms tbr1-cl4.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.122.10.29]
14 117 ms 104 ms 104 ms ar2-a3120s6.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.123.8.65]
15 106 ms 107 ms 109 ms 12.127.209.218
16 111 ms 114 ms 109 ms 12.110.110.131
17.....
Now apparently the line you want to look for in a traceroute report is sffca.ip.att.net. If it's present above or below any non-AT&T entry, then according to the allegations of Marc Klein (an expired hired by the EFF to support EFF claims that AT&T is cooperating with the NSA to spy on you), that means your packets are being copied and examined by the government, after passing through an OC-48 switch AT&T tapped in late February, 2003. BTW- that is a HUGE amount of Internet traffic. OC-48 lines are gigantic.
And assuming Klein is correct and AT&T has installed listening posts all over the country, seeing att.net anywhere in a trace route report should make you feel a little paranoid.