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<DIV><FONT size=2>If you pay your Verizon phone bill by check or credit card,
they have on record your checking account number and/or credit card number along
with the name/identity you use with them. In addition, since they
subscribe to the big three credit tracking agencies, they have all that info
also. It only takes one clever, dishonest employee to relay that
information to outside elements or use it themselves.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>W.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=starbliss@gmail.com href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">Ted Moffett</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=deco@moscow.com
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">Art Deco</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, November 22, 2008 11:57
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] I don't
understand</DIV>
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<DIV>I would not grant Verizon, or any corporation involved in phone or
Internet communication, assess to any personal information that I seriously
need to protect. Encryption or anonymity are
options. I assume any communication over phone or Internet is
possibly compromised, given the behavior of major US corporations
in wholesale violations of US citizens Fourth Amendment rights in
recent years</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Large scale accessing of personal information by
(judges, warrants and the Fourth Amendment are impediments blocking intel
on terrorists, of course) the FBI has been granted to Verizon and
other corporations, which is why they were seeking retroactive immunity from
prosecution for complicity with government "spying:"</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8622">http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8622</A></DIV>
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<P class=p4 align=justify>According to whistleblower <A
href="http://www.themediaconsortium.com/reporting/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/affidavit-bp-final.pdf"
target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN class=s2><B><FONT color=#003399>Babak
Pasdar</FONT></B></SPAN></A>, a telecom carrier he worked for as a security
consultant, subsequently named as Verizon by the <I>Post</I>, said the company
maintained a high-speed DS-3 digital line that allowed the Bureau and other
security agencies "unfettered" access to the carrier's wireless network,
including billing records and customer data "transmitted wirelessly."</P>
<P class=p4 align=justify>---------------</P>
<P class=p4 align=justify><A
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/21/AR2007102101041.html?nav=rss_technology">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/21/AR2007102101041.html?nav=rss_technology</A></P>
<P>As part of a surveillance package approved Thursday by the Senate
intelligence committee, some telecommunications companies would be granted
immunity from about 40 pending lawsuits that allege they violated Americans'
privacy and constitutional rights by aiding a warrantless surveillance program
instituted after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. </P>
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<DIV>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<BR> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 11/21/08, <B class=gmail_sendername>Art
Deco</B> <<A href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Forget that the victim is Obama. But if you or I
accessed someone's Verizon account, we'd be open to having criminal charges
filed against us. What's the difference between an unauthorized
Verizon employee accessing an account and you or I accessing that
account? Why isn't Verizon asking for criminal charges? This
certainly reduces my confidence in Verizon's protecting my personal
data.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>W.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=5>Verizon Staff Viewed Obama's
Account<BR></FONT></STRONG>
<P><FONT size=-1>By Cecilia Kang<BR>Washington Post Staff Writer<BR>Friday,
November 21, 2008; A08<BR></FONT></P>
<P></P>
<P><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Verizon+Communications+Inc.?tid=informline"
target=_blank>Verizon Wireless</A> said last night that a number of its
employees have "accessed and viewed" President-elect <A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Barack+Obama?tid=informline"
target=_blank>Barack Obama</A>'s personal cellphone account without
authorization.</P>
<P>The company said all employees who accessed the account -- whether they
were authorized to or not -- were immediately put on leave with pay. The
firm said it was evaluating the circumstances of each employee's access to
the account to determine appropriate action, including disciplinary
proceedings.</P>
<P>"We apologize to President-elect Obama and will work to keep the trust
our customers place in us every day," chief executive Lowell McAdam said in
a statement.</P>
<P>Verizon spokesman Jeffrey Nelson declined to comment beyond the company's
prepared statement and wouldn't specify how many employees saw the account
or what kind of information was viewed.</P>
<P>The breech of personal data comes as some security experts question
whether Obama, who used the Web as a central part of his campaign strategy,
should for security purposes stop using devices to transfer e-mail and other
data when he becomes president.</P>
<P>The account has been inactive for several months, Verizon said. Obama's
phone was a flip-phone as opposed to a Blackberry or other smartphone device
that is better suited for heavy e-mail and other data services, Verizon
said.</P>
<P>While the company wouldn't elaborate on what kind of data was viewed on
Obama's account, it could include calling and billing records.</P>
<P>Verizon will soon become the nation's largest wireless carrier after
completing its merger with <A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Alltel+Corporation?tid=informline"
target=_blank>Alltel</A>.</P></DIV></DIV><BR>=======================================================<BR> List
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