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Ex AT&T Tech Says NSA Monitors All Web Traffic
Sir Tandeth writes "A former technician at AT&T, who alleges that the telecom giant forwards virtually all of its internet traffic into a 'secret room' to facilitate government spying, says the whole operation reminds him of something out of Orwell's 1984. Appearing on MSNBC's Countdown program, whistleblower Mark Klein told Keith Olbermann that all Internet traffic passing over AT&T lines was copied into a locked room at the company's San Francisco office — to which only employees with National Security Agency clearance had access. 'Klein was on Capitol Hill Wednesday attempting to convince lawmakers not to give a blanket, retroactive immunity to telecom companies for their secret cooperation with the government. He said that as an AT&T technician overseeing Internet operations in San Francisco, he helped maintain optical splitters that diverted data en route to and from AT&T customers. '"
Come take a drink from the firehose!
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Thats a LOT of porn!
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i wonder how long it too them to sift through all the "iv got an iphone!!" messages...
So Skulldilocks threw acid on the schoolchildrens' faces, cause somebody from the bible told her to do it!
I mean, really.....
A goal is a dream with a deadline
So if I post 4 images of the EXTERIOR of the main AT&T building, can I get modded informative too?
My sig of choice is Marlboro
..but with extra "bad" and no "joke".
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Come on, that Countdown program is just about as biased left as you can get. I guess bias for the liberal side is called news, and bias for conservatives is an outrage, requiring an attack dog like Media Matters. It's a good thing that Fox News exists, or there would be no conservative voices in the media at all.
No weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men.-Ronald Reagan
If only there were some device which could look at each packet that's passed through it and determine where to send it... To route the packets, if you will...
Developers: We can use your help.
The NSA are the good guys, therefore, any traffic monitoring they do will be used to catch the bad guys. Since we are good guys*, we have nothing to fear.
NOTHING!
*Unless you smoke weed, use p2p or jaywalk, in which case you're a bad guy and you deserve to go to jail.
Maybe the room is like TARDIS, bigger on the inside
than on the outside?
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That's true, but what if they only kept a record of the text data? If you strip away all the audio/video content from today's web pages, the resulting data isn't that bad.
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When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Leprechauns?
The NSA does not care about monitoring geeks in their Mom's basement.
Except maybe on breaks, when they need a good laugh..."Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." -- Eric Hoffer
No warrant, no searches or seizures of my stuff. They are particularly prohibited from searching through all of my correspondence without a warrant.
A warrant? That's so 20th Century.....
"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." -- Eric Hoffer
There are religious maniacs out there that hate our culture...
What, like this one?
Name: Mr. Anon E Mouse; SSN: 555-55-5555
I am SO never getting a job with those guys...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Clear, Dark Skies
Bin Laden has actually flat out said on at least 2 tapes that the US could avoid being attacked again if we converted to Islam. You can think whatever you like, but that is straight from the horses mouth.