(2010-08-15) Project Vigilant Isp Eavesdrop

A semi-secret government contractor that calls itself Project Vigilant surfaced at the Def Con security conference Sunday with a series of revelations: that it monitors the traffic of 12 regional Internet service providers (ISP), hands much of that information to federal agencies, and encouraged one of its “volunteers,” researcher Adrian Lamo, to inform the federal government about the alleged source of a controversial video of civilian deaths in Iraq leaked to whistle-blower site WikiLeaks in April.