Zeakk1

Outside of the Star Trek universe, what other projects or aspects of your father's career do you think deserve more attention or are worth mentioning?

Heh, this isn't the case with AT&T. But, that must mean you're using different switch technology that involves actually creating a cache.

What kind of anti-union stuff did you guys get exposed to by the management?

Who you're texting is way different than what you're texting. The system was built for billing purposes not for espionage. The actual content wasn't saved or preserved once it left the switch. It's a really simple system. There did stat offering software that would back up text messages, but that was done via data sent by an app on the phone to a server that was accessible online, not by a network itself. The infrastructure for retaining text messages wouldn't even be cost effective to make and wasn't necessary for business needs.

There's also third party apps that do similar things, or automatically forward text messages. (Occasionally I would let parents know about this understanding that once they realized the volume of text messages their kids get that they would probably give up on it.)

But, this has never stopped Law and Order from pretending it is available.

A honey trap is a common and well know tactic employed in intelligence. It was discouraging to see someone at such a senior level fall for one -- especially the details of how it came to light, which makes the whole thing even more absurd.

Do you have any recommendations for policies or trainings that would help prevent future lapses of security due to one of the oldest and most obvious security vulnerability on the books?