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AT&T Forwarding All Internet Traffic to NSA?
An anonymous reader writes "SpamDailyNews is reporting that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a brief that claims AT&T has been forwarding internet traffic directly into the hands of the NSA. The brief was filed under seal (a procedure that allows only the judge and the litigants to view the document) in order to give the court time to review the information. From the article: 'More than just threatening individuals' privacy, AT&T's apparent choice to give the government secret, direct access to millions of ordinary Americans' Internet communications is a threat to the Constitution itself. We are asking the Court to put a stop to it now.'"
Nothing to see here, Please move along.
Thank you for the humor slashdot.
I just signed up with them for DSL after waiting for years for it to become available, just to get away from the Comcast monopoly. Time to find me a traffic anonymizer while I clear from the Comcast "old users" list.
Come to the University of Mars! Classes starting soon!
A boot, stomping on the face of humanity. Forever.
Everyone, Remember this is the president that has implied that we are all guilty as terrorists until proven innocent. Bush authorized AT&T to do this "Dragnet" and frankly they were stupid enough to do it. This will hopefully spawn a mass exodus away from AT&T's Voice and Data infastructure. What I'm concerned about isn't just the home data connections, but what about major DataCenters that have AT&T Peering? I'm wondering if that secure private data off the servers in those datacenters is being chewed up by the NSA? At any rate screw them, their prices suck, their cell phones BLOW, and their data services is unreliable (now at least we know why... NSA looking up all those nude pictures of Chelsey Clinton).
Poor guy, Gitmo for him.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
I hate to be the lone decenter here and I know that my karma will pay for my opinions, but how has this affected any of you? Assuming that it's true, has any aspect of your lives changed? Do you think that there is someone burried deep in a mountain somewhere devoted to reading your email and usenet posts?
What if you found out that programs like this stopped a nuclear bomb from going off in some big city on Sept 11, 2004? Am I fear mongering, sure. Unfortunately, the fear mongerers were right on Sept 10'th, but they were called fear mongerers and dismissed, much as I'm going to be dismissed here. With all the flack the Prez got over two memos among thousands that said "Bin Laden wants to attack America" and "Terrorists might want to fly planes into buildings", do you think he's gonna let the next one get by?
However, any of this information is used for anything other than capturing/killing terrorists and/or preventing a terrorists attack, I'll join all of you in the rage. But until then, I don't care if someone has a packet sniffer on the Internet. Hell, I always assumed that it wasn't only the government sniffing packets, and I trust the government more with my packets than some Russian hacker with a packet analyzer looking for credit card numbers and email passwords.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
I give AT&T my money for my ISP.
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And I noticed a real slow-down of my internet a few months ago, and have just been putting up with it... now I'm wondering if i'm on some 'list' and that's why my internet seems slower, that i'm being wat...
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I've got news for you. There's no "separation of church and state" in in the Constitution either.
That's just a contemporary legal tactic used to victimize and disenfranchise religious people (especially Christians) using the judicial system.
No, we don't. Suspicion is good enough, especially in light of all of the other revelations that have come to light recently.
Occasional releif? :p
You poor, oppressed soul. I can just imagine how difficult your life must have been. All those years spent fearful for your life. The time served in Alaskan prizon camps. Watching your family members be "dissapeared". Yep, it's horrible to live in the United Soviet Socialist States. Thank god for the "occasional releif" like only having to spend half an hour in line for bread. Don't know what we'd do without them.
I don't know whether to laugh or to cry. You country provides you with a higher standard of living and more personal freedoms than any nation in history, and all you can do is bitch, complain, and talk about starting a revolution. I understand the desire to hold on to all of your rights, but there's no need to be a goddamn drama-queen while doing it.