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Ex AT&T Tech Says NSA Monitors All Web Traffic

Posted by Zonk on from the tinfoil-hats-engaged dept.

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. '"

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  1. New meaning to the phrase... by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Come take a drink from the firehose!

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  2. Whoa by yamamushi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thats a LOT of porn!

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  3. Re:I've read about this before. by PhreakinPenguin · · Score: 4, Funny

    So if I post 4 images of the EXTERIOR of the main AT&T building, can I get modded informative too?

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  4. It's like some bad Soviet Russia joke... by Overzeetop · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..but with extra "bad" and no "joke".

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  5. Re:"All" internet traffic? by truthsearch · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

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  6. Re:I've read about this before. by Luke+Dawson · · Score: 5, Funny

    As bills get passed to erode the freedom of American's, I'm watching the US slowly descend into totalitarianism.
    Actually, it's a really clever way of defeating terrorism, one that the terrorists will never catch on to! You see, since they hate us for our freedom, if we eliminate all of these pesky freedoms, the terrorists will have nothing to hate us for anymore! See, it makes perfect sense :)
  7. Re:I've read about this before. by j_166 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Leprechauns?

  8. Culture warior... by WallaceAndGromit · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are religious maniacs out there that hate our culture...

    What, like this one?

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  9. Re:I've read about this before. by porkchop_d_clown · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh yeah? Go take pictures of important buildings in the middle of the day across town and see if you don't get questioned by the police after a few hours? If it takes you a couple of hours to take pictures of the outside of the building, I would expect the police to pick you up. And give you a breathalizer, a drug test and to check if you were an escapee from the Home For The Easily Bewildered.
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