Comcast is watching you!

[xiinfaniin]

Comcast Is Hiring an Internet Snoop for the Feds

 

By Noah Shachtman May 30, 2008 | 2:42:00

 

Wanna tap e-mail, voice and Web traffic for the government? Well, here's your chance. Comcast, the country's second-largest Internet provider, is looking for an engineer to handle "reconnaissance" and "analysis" of "subscriber intelligence" for the company's "National Security Operations."

 

Day-to-day tasks, the company says in an online job listing, will include "deploy[ing], installing] and remov[ing] strategic and tactical data intercept equipment on a nationwide basis to meet Comcast and Government lawful intercept needs." The person in this "intercept engineering" position will help collect and process traffic on the company's "CDV [Comcast Digital Voice], HSI [High Speed Internet] and Video" services.

 

 

Since May 2007, all Internet providers have been required to install gear for easy wiretapping under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA. Anyone taking this position, Comcast says, will have to be "knowledgeable with ... standards such as CALEA." (The company is all too happy to "intercept its customers’ communications" for a fee of a thousand dollars, Secrecy News revealed last year.)

 

But the person in this job won't just be snooping for the government. He or she will also "perfor[m] diagnosis on data, voice, and video services to detect and respond to fraudulent activity such as theft of service and speed enhancement."

 

For the better part of a year, there have been rumors that the company kept some sort of bandwidth limit on its customers. Finally, in February, Comcast admitted that it had been "clamping down on subcribers' file-sharing as a way of keeping overall net traffic up.

 

The job requires a "B.S. Degree in Information Systems Technology, MIS or related field or equivalent years of progressive experience and self-study," a minimum of two years of policy or security engineering experience," as well as the "ability to carry and coordinate delivery of a 50-pound server to support deployments in local market."

 

If that's too much for you, don't worry. The company is also looking for an administrative assistant in its National Security Operations office. In that position, you'll be able to handle "sensitive incoming Legal subpoenas and other material. Some of this material may be 'Secret/Top Secret' and be classified under applicable Federal Law."

 

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[Baashi]

Not a big deal Do no evil and you will be alright

[-Lily-]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/may/20/informationinformationinformation

 

Quiet disturbing.

[xiinfaniin]

^^Distubing indeed!!

 

Baashi, I thought applying this position .

[Baashi]

Jokes aside, it is not practical to govern informed polity equipped with today's gadgets not to mention the centrality of internet in everyday transactions. Gotta be practical ya Xiin. There is 101 hackers publication available at Barnes & Nobles. Flip couple of pages and you will be invisible

[xiinfaniin]

^^If it were fraudulent activities that's monitored I wouldn't mind, but my hunch is this is intended to flag people based on how they express their political sentiment. And that itself is a breach Baashi, not to mention a commercial private company whose services millions trusted is secretly spearheading this privacy violations. But I see your point. 9/11 experience changed a lot and people should expect and adopt it…

[Baashi]

Check pub 2600 yaa Xiin and pass it to you know who if you would. Follow the instructions and you don't have to worry about Comacast's private eye.

[Faarax-Brawn]

It is a dirty job & someones gotta do it...If i were an engineer,i wouldve taken the post

[Coloow]

reminds me of an old song;I always feel like somebody is watching me.

[Jacaylbaro]

If they start doing it here (if they don't already) i would be really happy to take that job. I somehow like listening to the other people's conversations ,,