Are YOU being watched?

[cvec7]

Want to know if the NSA is monitoring your outbound ip? As it turns out, there is a simple way to find out in DOS.
See, it turns out that the way the NSA monitors select IP's is that they have an agreement with at&t since att provides much of the back-bone infrastructure of the web. The NSA has a room set up in a undisclosed ATT building where they have a few switches and routers set up with their monitoring programs and such.

AT&T technician Mark Klein learned of a secret room installed in the company's San Francisco internet switching center ... what he saw and learnt prompted him to call at the Electronic Frontier Foundation unannounced in late January 2005 with documents in hand. The EFF was already preparing a class-action lawsuit against AT&T for allegedly turning over customer phone-record data to the NSA -- relying on reporting from the Los Angeles Times about AT&T giving the NSA access to a phone-record database with 1.88 trillion entries. More here at Wired.

The internet surveillance program covers domestic traffic not only just international traffic.Most International traffic enters the US through only 3 points Florida New York and San Francisco. Marcus notes that the AT&T spy rooms are "in far more locations than would be required to catch the majority of international traffic"

The system is capable of looking at content, not just addresses. The configuration described in the Klein documents -- presumably the Narus software in particular -- "exists primarily to conduct sophisticated rule-based analysis of content", Marcus concludes.

The system looks at all traffic not just AT&T but those transiting AT&T networks.

Courtesy of indymedia.

So basically, they are monitoring and copying your packets.



Now, onto the fun part...

to see if your traffic is passing through one of these such rooms, fire up a dos window. (start>run>cmd)

type in, "tracert www.google.com"

wait for it to finish, and observe the 'hops' (the lines) and look for any containing "att" in them

What you are looking for is: "sffca.ip.att.net"

If you have this in one of your hops, then you are probably on the NSA's poop-list....

 

[olds97_lss]

I guess their not interested in me...

 

[HeartBreak]

Not interested in me, either. Guess that means I can still play with my loud toys.

 

[speedticket75]

i had a big list of stuff come on.......whatever it is,,,,lots of numbers & things........can it be deleted without messing up my computer & what is it for ?

 

[cvec7]

i had a big list of stuff come on.......whatever it is,,,,lots of numbers & things........can it be deleted without messing up my computer & what is it for ?

You can't delete it...just close out of the window...it doesn't mess up your computer or anything....it's only tracing the route your connection goes through to get to a certain website..


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Yea, the fact is, it's unlikey you are being watched...you'll likely know if you are...

From what I've seen, most of the people being spyed on are frequent visitors of sketchy sites... (not pr0n, more like aljezerra or however the hell u spell it)

However, the sffca one is only one monitoring room we know about...there are probably many more...



here's a sample one from someone who is on their list:

1 32 ms 35 ms 23 ms 219.93.218.177
2 30 ms 23 ms 24 ms 219.93.217.213
3 18 ms 24 ms 24 ms 210.187.133.49
4 30 ms 24 ms 24 ms brf-odsy02-srp1-0.tm.net.my [210.187.135.2]
5 30 ms 23 ms 24 ms 210.187.142.1
6 30 ms 24 ms 23 ms 219.93.174.147
7 30 ms 24 ms 23 ms 219.93.151.226
8 221 ms 216 ms 215 ms POS1-1.IG3.SAC1.ALTER.NET [157.130.210.181]
9 246 ms 215 ms 215 ms 0.so-2-2-0.XL2.SAC1.ALTER.NET [152.63.54.126]
10 222 ms 215 ms 216 ms 0.so-3-0-0.XL2.SCL2.ALTER.NET [152.63.48.94]
11 223 ms 215 ms 216 ms 0.so-7-0-0.BR1.SCL2.ALTER.NET [152.63.57.101]
12 210 ms 203 ms 203 ms ggr2-p3133.sffca.ip.att.net [192.205.33.197]
13 245 ms 251 ms 251 ms tbr1-p012101.sffca.ip.att.net [12.123.12.17]
14 245 ms 251 ms 251 ms tbr1-cl3.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.10.26]
15 246 ms 251 ms 251 ms tbr1-cl20.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.10.49]
16 246 ms 251 ms 251 ms gar1-p360.dlrtx.ip.att.net [12.123.16.169]
17 246 ms 251 ms 251 ms 12.119.136.18
18 270 ms 276 ms 276 ms vl31.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.29]
19 270 ms 276 ms 276 ms vl22.dsr02.dllstx2.theplanet.com [70.85.127.76]
20 271 ms 276 ms 275 ms vl2.car02.dllstx6.theplanet.com [12.96.160.55]
21 282 ms 276 ms 275 ms b4.25.344a.static.theplanet.com [74.52.37.180]

 

[jetmechG550]

suprisingly, I'm not being watched. That's a first

 

[Monkey Wrench]

If you want to be really sure, get on Sprint's Private IP network. It has no portals to any other network, but, it also means you cannot get on the net in general unless your IT admin set's a port up through the firewall and you jump off the PIP network!

 

[4u2nv]

Nope, no love for me either. Mine does close automatically really fast when its done though (is that normal?).. But yeah, my viewing of porn and r/c stuff must not intrest them.

 

[Mondo]

watched?

To be honest.. I don't give a poop if the NSA is watching me or not because I don't do anything wrong.
In a way I am glad the NSA is monitoring IPs especiallythe IPs those indivduals out there who are out do us wrong, to undermine democracy and threaten our freedoms in the name of the so called "holy war"