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Small Utah-based ISP forced to install black box that allowed feds to spy

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Pete Ashdown, the CEO of small Utah ISP XMission, says that in 2010 he received a Foreign Intelligence Service Act (FISA) warrant that allowed the federal government to monitor the Internet activity of one of his customers. Ashdown was also given a gag order, preventing him from talking about key details relating to the warrant. In an article on BuzzFeed, he explained how the government "wanted to come in and put in equipment on my network to monitor a single customer." Federal agents came in and set up a duplicate port that tapped into the customer's traffic and allowed the government to see everything the person sent and received. The executive noted that the ending result was "a little box in our systems room that was capturing all the traffic to this customer."

 

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