Sunday, April 09, 2006
Vanderbilt University Eavesdropping Program
Today , CNN reported about AT&T having a special room used exclusively for gathering data for the NSA.
This has been going on for years. Everyone in the communications buisness has Uncle Sam leaning on them for the purpose of spying on everyone using their system. Even COMCAST does it. Even BellSouth does it.
OK , what about Vanderbilt ? Simple . The phone system on Vanderbilt campus belongs to Vanderbilt. So , Vanderbilt does have a special " room " on Peabody that sucks in the phone calls. Vanderbilt does have people monitoring phone traffic. When on campus , do you call outside by dialing 9 ? That's where your call goes to get outside.
What about the internet ? What about it ? Most Vanderbilt schools have their own system people. Those people do spy on it's useage. At Vanderbilt School of Engineering , the guy called " SPYDER " was well known for sending anonymous emails of sexual content to co-eds. Nothing could be done about him since he had his head up Dean Galloway's ass. On two occasions , SPYDER gave Galloway intel about uprisings from the engineering faculty. These deeds , along with other deeds , got the SPYDER some impressive pay raises and job security. ( See what happens when you talk and tell about other's emails ? ) The SPYDER is also known for playing Hacker on other systems. Yes , it is true the engineering school's system got hacked , butt , that's another story.
This has been going on for years. Everyone in the communications buisness has Uncle Sam leaning on them for the purpose of spying on everyone using their system. Even COMCAST does it. Even BellSouth does it.
OK , what about Vanderbilt ? Simple . The phone system on Vanderbilt campus belongs to Vanderbilt. So , Vanderbilt does have a special " room " on Peabody that sucks in the phone calls. Vanderbilt does have people monitoring phone traffic. When on campus , do you call outside by dialing 9 ? That's where your call goes to get outside.
What about the internet ? What about it ? Most Vanderbilt schools have their own system people. Those people do spy on it's useage. At Vanderbilt School of Engineering , the guy called " SPYDER " was well known for sending anonymous emails of sexual content to co-eds. Nothing could be done about him since he had his head up Dean Galloway's ass. On two occasions , SPYDER gave Galloway intel about uprisings from the engineering faculty. These deeds , along with other deeds , got the SPYDER some impressive pay raises and job security. ( See what happens when you talk and tell about other's emails ? ) The SPYDER is also known for playing Hacker on other systems. Yes , it is true the engineering school's system got hacked , butt , that's another story.
