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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. Oh oh... by sm62704 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Boy, am I in deep deep deep REALLY DEEP deep trouble!!! No wonder this happened!

    -mcgrew

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  2. Re:Why else to you think it's going to San Fransis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    San Francisco... wow that brings back a lot of memories. My first homosexual experience was in San Francisco. At the time, I was 21 and engaged to a hot, but slightly vapid, sorority type. I fucked her, sure, but I didn't really enjoy it all that much. One thing I did enjoy was when she played with my asshole. Especially when she stuck her (extra large) vibrator up my ass and sucked me off. Damn, that was good.

    Anyhow, I took a trip to San Francisco to look at their graduate CS program (they were doing some exciting stuff with linux). Timothy, one of the graduate students, showed me around town that night. A few drinks later, I'm licking out his asshole while he sucks me off. After I shot my load, he gave me a couple poppers, bent me over, and popped my ass cherry. I called Cheryl (my fiance) the next morning and told her it was over.

  3. Re:it's not stealing by heinousjay · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I wish you were logged in so I could friend you.

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  4. Re:I've read about this before. by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You must be new here...