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American Telephone & Telegraph - anti-American
If an adversarial spy, AT&T is your friend. They literally handed all metadata to American adversaries so that even al undercover law enforcement, spies, and anything else that requires security - has been compromised. But the AT&T has been an anti-American company for almost 30 years. Constantly stifling innovation. Numerous major (ie nationwide) crashes. Literally sold off all innovations to only enrich top management.
One need only look at their president to see why their network security is a joke. John Stankey "holds a B.B.A. in Finance from Loyola Marymount University and an M.B.A. from UCLA."
He knows nothing about his company's product. Is obviously an impediment to innovation. Since innovation would only increase costs - harm bonuses. Operates his company similar to what is also in Boeing (a benchmark for corruption in all top management), Norfolk Southern, GE, all American steel companies, GM, and so many other corporations that, for example, blame the employees. While reaping obscene bonuses. And preaching praise upon Trump's 'tax cuts for the rich'.
China stole the entire US government payroll because the George Jr administration (creating so much damage to America - no only in Mission Accomplished) were just like business school graduates. Four years later, all American spies in China disappeared.
How many more will be harmed because metadata has even said where everyone was, at what time, when making or receiving calls. No problem. Right wing extremists say we have no right to privacy. So this massive and harmful theft is acceptable. We have no idea (yet) how much damage can be created by information literally given away by John Stankey's obscene mismanagement.
BTW, this is why people, who come from where the work gets done, banned Huawei from North American communication networks. And why Tik Tok is a powerful tool, used by foreign adversaires, to do great harm to America.'
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Re: American Telephone & Telegraph - anti-American
It is not the kind of thing I understand, but I think AT&T is just Ma Bell and remember giving them the boot long ago.
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Re: American Telephone & Telegraph - anti-American
The leak was of logs for virtually all AT&T cellular customers for 6 or 7 months listing every phone number that each customer's phone number contacted. But names are not included or time stamps.
A smart, well organized organization could use that information to link up various people who might prefer not to be linked.
AT&T claims there is no reason to believe the data is public. It was downloaded by a third party though.
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AT&T claims many things. But only AT&T has had multiple nationwide telephone outages. At least one directly traceable to defective software that did not release lines after the call terminated. Slowly locking out all telephone exchanges in dots all over the country.
AT&T has had numerous e-mail breeches.
Back in the days when Sprint was advertising "you could hear a pin drop" (because they installed fiber optics). AT&T spend massively to upgrade microwave links. To reduce noise on existing stations. Rather then scrap them and install fiber.
Rather than have Bell Labs innovators do innovation. They were instructed to fix obselete technology microwave relay stations.
Of course, the Bell Labs said existing fiber will only get faster with advances at both ends of the fiber. The network becomes more powerful over decades with upgrades - and almost no money. But AT&T could only understand costs - today. A bean counter mentality. Existing (low bandwidth) microwave relays already existed. It would cost money to scrap them.
AT&T decided to get direct access to the consumer. Bypassing the Baby Bells. So they spend $140 billion on the two largest cable TV companies. Management was so MBA as to not look at wires on poles. None would do what AT&T wanted. Another $80 billion was necessary to rip them down and install sufficient cables.
Armstrong, two years later, offered to sell those cable companies to Comcast for $80 billion. Comcast then had telephone and internet services.
AT&T, at that point, was only three month away from bankruptcy. Sold off were many AT&T businesses (ie transocean cables to Global Crossing) to cover up massive losses. Directly traceable to top management who come from business schools - not from where the work gets done - phones and internet.
Even the crown jewel - Bell Labs - were sold. Last I saw, Nokia now owns the Labs. MBAs reap profits by selling potentially productive operations to foreigners. AT&T stopped being productive (innovating) in the 1980s.
85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management.
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