Saturday, March 12, 2011

Amdocs has contracts with the 25 biggest phone companies in America

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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