{"id":198562,"date":"2007-10-30T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/30\/att-created-a-language-to-do-mass-surveillance\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T17:52:00","slug":"att-created-a-language-to-do-mass-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/30\/att-created-a-language-to-do-mass-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T Created a Language to Do Mass Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, if there is a group of people with their tongues more firmly up the rectum of the state security apparatus than AT&amp;T, I would surprised.<\/p>\n<p>They have gone so far as <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2007\/10\/att-invents-pro.html\">inventing a purpose built language for mass-surveillance<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve said it a number of times, don&#8217;t use AT&#038;T, they suck wet farts from dead pigeons.<\/p>\n<p>According the article, this was originally developed to <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">find sales leads<\/span>, and it was developed well before 911.  They want to hoover all of <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">our<\/span> data, and sell it to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a sort of a schematic of its function:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img222.imageshack.us\/img222\/4664\/guiltbyassociation3pr3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is some sample code:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>#include &#8220;ipRec.hh&#8221;<br \/>#include &#8220;ihash.h&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>hash_table *ofInterest;<\/p>\n<p>int inSet (ipPacket_t * p)<br \/>{<br \/>  if (hash_get (ofInterest, p->source.hash_value) == 1)<br \/>    return 1;<br \/>  if (hash_get (ofInterest, p->dest.hash_value) == 1)<br \/>    return 1;<br \/>  return 0;<br \/>}<br \/>void sig_main (ipAddr_s addrs < l:>,<br \/>          ipPacket_s packets < p:>)<br \/>{<br \/>  \/* code to set up hash table *\/ <br \/>  ofInterest = hash_empty ();<br \/>  iterate<br \/>    (over addrs) {<br \/>    event (ipAddr_t * addr) {<br \/>      if (hash_insert (ofInterest, addr->hash_value, 1) < 0)<br \/>    }<br \/>  }<br \/>  \/* code to select packets *\/<br \/>  iterate<br \/>    (over packets<br \/>     filteredby inSet)<br \/>  {<br \/>    event (ipPacket_t * p)<br \/>    {<br \/>      printPacketInfo (p);<br \/>    }<br \/>  };<br \/>}<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, if there is a group of people with their tongues more firmly up the rectum of the state security apparatus than AT&amp;T, I would surprised. They have gone so far as inventing a purpose built language for mass-surveillance. I&#8217;ve said it a number of times, don&#8217;t use AT&#038;T, they suck wet farts from dead &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1102,989,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intelligence","category-software","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}