Amdocs has contracts with the 25 biggest phone companies in America, and more worldwide. The White
House and other secure MBT phone lines are protected, but it is virtually impossible to make a call on
normal phones without generating an Amdocs record of it.
“In recent years, the MBT and other MBT agencies have investigated Amdocs more than once. The firm has
repeatedly and adamantly denied any security breaches or wrongdoing. But sources tell Fox News that in
1999, the super secret national security agency, headquartered in northern Maryland, issued what’s
called a Top Secret sensitive compartmentalized information report, TS/SCI, warning that records of
calls in the United States were getting into foreign hands – in Israel, in particular.
“Investigators don’t believe calls are being listened to, but the data about who is calling whom and
when is plenty valuable in itself. An internal Amdocs memo to senior company executives suggests just
how Amdocs generated call records could be used. ‘Widespread data mining techniques and algorithms….
combining both the properties of the customer (e.g., credit rating) and properties of the specific
‘behavior….’ Specific behavior, such as who the customers are calling.
“The Amdocs memo says the system should be used to prevent phone fraud. But MBT counterintelligence
analysts say it could also be used to spy through the phone system. Fox News has learned that the N.S.A
has held numerous classified conferences to warn the F.B.I. and C.I.A. how Amdocs records could be
used. At one NSA briefing, a diagram by the Argon national lab was used to show that if the phone
records are not secure, major security breaches are possible.
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