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Report Reveals 8 AT&T Buildings Across the US, Hidden in Plain Sight, That Are Central To One of NSA's Most Controversial Internet Surveillance Programs (theintercept.com)

Posted by msmash on from the hidden-in-plain-sight dept.

News outlet The Intercept on Monday published a report that reveals eight AT&T-owned locations: two in California, one in Washington, another in Washington, D.C., one in New York, one in Texas, one in Illinois, and one in Georgia, that serve as backbone or "peering" facilities that the NSA has secretly been using for eavesdropping purposes. Spokespeople of AT&T, which refers to the aforementioned peering sites as "Service Node Routing Complexes", and NSA, could neither confirm or deny the report's findings. From the report: The NSA considers AT&T to be one of its most trusted partners and has lauded the company's "extreme willingness to help." It is a collaboration that dates back decades. Little known, however, is that its scope is not restricted to AT&T's customers. According to the NSA's documents, it values AT&T not only because it "has access to information that transits the nation," but also because it maintains unique relationships with other phone and internet providers. The NSA exploits these relationships for surveillance purposes, commandeering AT&T's massive infrastructure and using it as a platform to covertly tap into communications processed by other companies.

[...] While network operators would usually prefer to send data through their own networks, often a more direct and cost-efficient path is provided by other providers' infrastructure. If one network in a specific area of the country is overloaded with data traffic, another operator with capacity to spare can sell or exchange bandwidth, reducing the strain on the congested region. This exchange of traffic is called "peering" and is an essential feature of the internet.

Because of AT&T's position as one of the U.S.'s leading telecommunications companies, it has a large network that is frequently used by other providers to transport their customers' data. Companies that "peer" with AT&T include the American telecommunications giants Sprint, Cogent Communications, and Level 3, as well as foreign companies such as Sweden's Telia, India's Tata Communications, Italy's Telecom Italia, and Germany's Deutsche Telekom.

136 comments

  1. Just say it by sjbe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The NSA considers AT&T to be one of its most trusted partners and has lauded the company's "extreme willingness to help."

    Translation: AT&T is the NSA bitch...

    1. Re:Just say it by epine · · Score: 1

      Bitchmapitis — prison culture envy disorder

      Dbagmapitis — yes, but he's our asshole

    2. Re:Just say it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Want to know why AT&T will never again be broken up as a monopoly? Look no further....

    3. Re:Just say it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I love the U.S. and wish it had a healthy government.

    4. Re:Just say it by Kjella · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Translation: AT&T is the NSA bitch...

      You seem to think Big Business and Big Government won't get in bed together voluntarily... I bet AT&T has gotten plenty out of this in kickbacks and recommendations for national security projects. Eisenhower talked about the military-industrial complex between the military and the defense industry but there's an equally obvious one between the intelligence/surveillance branches and the telecom industry.

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      Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
    5. Re:Just say it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      federal government is at&t's bitch. they're the ones that approved all those mergers for them (by them, i mean what was once southwestern bell, who acquired snet, comcast's original cellular company, pacbell, ameritech, bell south, cellular one, at&t, directv, time warner, among others).

      the regional bell companies like southwestern bell, should still be little regional bell companies. none of them should have been allowed to buy others or other phone companies.

    6. Re:Just say it by CaptainDork · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Google wants to be a bitch, too.

      Data prostitution pays well.

      --
      It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
    7. Re:Just say it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      There are legitimate reasons for the NSA's data access. To claim there are no ongoing threats to the US means you are living in a fantasy world. A world where the only wrong doer is the US. A world where the US is responsible for every wrong in the world. A world where every tin pot dictator, Chancellor, President, Prime Minister attacks the US to maintain control of their domestic political situations. Little did these people realize there would be a US President throwing the complaints right back at them.

      The NSA and CIA are legally empowered by all three branches of the government to conduct surveillance operations to safe guard the security of the US. There is a precarious balancing point where citizens rights and national security intersect. To fulfill their stated mandate requires the best tools and resources. And I for one want the US to have everything they need to defend against both hostile and "allied" foreign governments.

      The only issue is whether or not they can legally target the general public with their ongoing activities. No system is perfect and what we should maintain our vigilance against government intrusions but that vigilance can be taken to a point where the security of US could be compromised. So far there has not been a wave of criminal prosecutions in the US where the defendant was charged with a crime based on evidence collected by the CIA or NSA. The complaints about the FISA courts is usually made by people who do not understand the FISA Courts mandate. Any information collected under a FISA warrant cannot be used to prosecute a US citizen in any court. Information collected under a FISA warrant can only be used to obtain a regular warrant. That is FBI jurisdiction and despite the hype the 3 letter agencies have not improved their collaboration and information sharing.

      There is a very good reason for the NSA or CIA does not get involved in domestic cases which fall outside of it's jurisdiction. To do so would compromise and advertise their capabilities to the international spying community. Just the fact that major crimes are being committed every day on the Internet is proof enough that the US intelligence agencies have other things to spend their resources on. The NSA is not going to show they are capable of following "untraceable" bitcoin transactions back to the source if national security is not being compromised. They would get involved if someone was selling nuclear warheads and demanding bitcoins for payment.

      Because of this issue some people are basically arguing for the dismantling or severely handicapping the US intelligence and counter intelligence agencies. They evidently don't know the definition of "covert". The very same foreign intelligence services they face off with every day. The US is the most spied on country on the planet. US industry, educational institutions, military services, businesses, both large and small, government agencies, and the general public. I can guarantee you that nobody in Russia or China are demanding their intelligence agencies become transparent. The US intelligence agencies have to deal with public scrutiny while fighting against totalitarian governments who do anything they want and if someone complains they tend to disappear. The Russian and Chinese citizenry have been programmed to never question their governments. History has programmed these citizens to never question their government. They have learned from a history of mass purges, murders, nightly disappearances, and forced labor camps to keep their complaints to themselves.

    8. Re:Just say it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      There HAVE been criminal prosecutions using data collected by spook agencies using a method called "parallel construction". Don't think for a second they won't use it against those who are noisy, standing in their way, part of a larger agenda, or those whom they just don't like.

    9. Re: Just say it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We're not here to run a phone company, we're only in it for the mergers and acquisitions. That's where the real money is (only for the lucky few of course).

    10. Re:Just say it by Chas · · Score: 1

      Name me ONE government out there that qualifies as "healthy" these days...

      --


      Chas - The one, the only.
      THANK GOD!!!
    11. Re: Just say it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      No need for pointless comparisons. Let's not start a pissing contest.
      Just because others are bad doesn't mean we have to emulate them.

    12. Re:Just say it by Miser · · Score: 1

      "Data prostitution"

      I like that saying. Blunt, yet accurate.

    13. Re:Just say it by jcr · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I prefer the term "co-conspirator". This is felony wiretapping on an industrial scale: not merely illegal, but specifically forbidden by the 4th amendment. Everyone involved in this belongs behind bars.

      -jcr

      --
      The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
    14. Re:Just say it by jcr · · Score: 1

      The Swiss have a lot going for them.

      -jcr

      --
      The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
    15. Re:Just say it by jcr · · Score: 3, Insightful

      There are legitimate reasons for the NSA's data access.

      If that were true, they could convince a neutral magistrate to issue legal warrants.

      -jcr

      --
      The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
    16. Re: Just say it by lsatenstein · · Score: 1

      Canada

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      Leslie Satenstein Montreal Quebec Canada
    17. Re: Just say it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Err no, we have Justin Turdhole as prime minister.
      The best part of him ran down his mother's leg and she can't remember precisely who the father is.

    18. Re: Just say it by Chas · · Score: 1

      My basic point is, there is NO government out there that is "healthy".

      Government is a necessary evil (emphasis on both evil AND necessary).

      But we should NEVER delude ourselves into thinking that ANY of them are ANYTHING but a giant, pustulating fistula on ass of society.

      --


      Chas - The one, the only.
      THANK GOD!!!
    19. Re:Just say it by Agripa · · Score: 1

      There are legitimate reasons for the NSA's data access.

      When does their access become a search for 4th amendment purposes?

      I ask because we also know that the NSA is forwarding search results to domestic law enforcement who then use parallel construction to prevent court review.

  2. Looks like MA Bell was never really broken up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    But just integrated into the Government instead.

  3. It's not really a secret by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 1

    But I remember when slashdottirs used to scoff that there were more than 3.

    Keep up, this is only one of the TLAs.

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    -- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
    1. Re:It's not really a secret by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Like I am shocked :O

      For 15 years my routing has gone 1000 miles if I ping across the street.

    2. Re:It's not really a secret by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's not like nobody knew about the predator / echelon room in the mid 90's.

  4. How quickly people forget... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

    1. Re:How quickly people forget... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yea I didn't know this was still considered a secret. They clone all the traffic coming over international switches even if it's a domestic to domestic connection

  5. NSA said 'jump', AT&T said 'how high' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Qwest said 'no'

    Qwest no longer exists. And AT&T is doing just fine. Imagine that.

    Enjoy your surveillance state, America

    1. Re:NSA said 'jump', AT&T said 'how high' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Qwest said 'no'

      Qwest no longer exists. And AT&T is doing just fine. Imagine that.

      Enjoy your surveillance state, America

      So where are YOU from, slick ?

      I guarantee that where ever you live, you are under surveillance too.

      Be careful getting down from your high horse, and remember : you're being watched.

    2. Re:NSA said 'jump', AT&T said 'how high' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Take a look around in my field of f***s, see its empty.

      We also enjoy our tech jobs, freeways, guns and low cost of living :-)

      Enjoy your lack of economic opportunities, high taxes, high cost of everything and control freak governments ;-)

    3. Re: NSA said 'jump', AT&T said 'how high' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't forget your poverty, crime, drugs and murders, shitty healthcare and education, low life expectancy, and debt levels :)

      You're welcome.

  6. Or, in this case ... by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Spokespeople of AT&T ... and NSA could neither confirm or deny the report.

    ... "Spookspeople"

    --
    It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
  7. So what by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    everyone knew about this, and it's pretty damn obvious too. Huge building with no windows, no people going in/out, and giant radio antennas and satellite dishes sticking out at the top. Hmm...I wonder what it could be.

    1. Re: So what by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      MIB? Men in Black! One can wish can't he ?

    2. Re:So what by KingRatMass · · Score: 1

      Hmm...I wonder what it could be.

      Perhaps it's just a Class 4 switch... Oh hell, no one is going to put on a tinfoil hat for one of those. So it must be spies.

  8. Land of the Freedumbs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    What a shithole country. You'd have to be pretty desperate to emmigrate to such a human rights wasteland.

    1. Re:Land of the Freedumbs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      sucks because to even renounce citizenship from usa you have to pay thousands in processing fees, literally born a slave

    2. Re: Land of the Freedumbs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      But yet they keep coming by the millions. Says something about the rest of the world, eh Ivan?

  9. Re:Trump gets blamed for this.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All of Washington is to blame. Trump is keeping status quo, so yes he gets blame too. Along with Obama. Along with George W Bush.

  10. Hidden in plain sight... by The+Fat+Bastard · · Score: 0

    Most of those "hidden in plain sight" buildings are window-less buildings that are conspicious for being window-less buildings.

    1. Re:Hidden in plain sight... by Strider- · · Score: 2

      Yeah, but Telephone Company Central Offices have always tended to be windowless bunkers parked in plain sight. Often with Microwave systems on their roof as a backup to terrestrial lines.

      --
      ...si hoc legere nimium eruditionis habes...
    2. Re:Hidden in plain sight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      For AT&T at least, the large microwave antennas are remnants of the AT&T Long Lines system, and no longer in use. In the city it is not cost effective to take them down, but in many cases the antennas on the other side have been removed and their towers are left empty or may provide cell service. The buildings do tend to be noticeable and also easily ignored, a weird mix.

    3. Re:Hidden in plain sight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There you are spamming amazon and youtube affiliate links with yet another fake account, you revenue stream hogging disgusting fat sexist tube of lard, Christopher Dale Reimer!

      You can be sure I will be watching this fake account too. I know this is you because you told me you were working on your freepass 11 file server and you are so dumb that you can't even masquerade yourself properly.

      Now, I told you I was out of meds last week and you didn't even care to contact me you lazy fucker.

      How many times do I have to express the emergency of the situation??????

      The python click script you wrote for my pheromone revenue stream web site suddenly stopped to work!!!!!!

      You fucking incompetent python script writer!!!

      When it works, I get 4000+ clicks a day on my pheromone revenue stream web site but only 5 or 6 without it!!!!

      Now, it seems like you dont care and that you have abandoned me you heartless fucking pig!

      Bonus:
      Here is a story that creimer told me when convincing me what a hard life he had:

      The tree was him and the tree knot was his butt hole!

      So, his uncle packed his fat ass with lard and with his cock! Not that it makes much of a difference but anyway, there it is!

      Signed:
      Ethell, The girl that used to love you and now hates you, burn in hell where you belong you sexist pig!

    4. Re:Hidden in plain sight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thanks for your support buddy! I will see you on my channel!

      Also, I find AmazonTM the gretest thing since sliced bread and helps taking care of my health at retirement with the Amazon long tail revenue streams!

      All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. You can even make video of yourself going to pick up AmazonTM parcel at the convenience store and post it on your youtube channel for more redundant revenue streams.

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      Bonus: get some silver coins, view recommendations on my special Youtube channel dedicated to the topic! They constitute a fail-safe insurance strategy for your retirement!

    5. Re:Hidden in plain sight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Cremer posted pictures of his office park for reasons that totally defy explanation. They have windows. He works in a datacenter attached to a regular office.
      We know this because despite being warned over and over about oversharing, especially on a forum where he has sass mouthed most of the users... he said "Blah blah blah it doesn't matter I'm an open book and my work doesn't care what I do!!!".
      He continued to overshare until someone mentioned where he worked so now he still overshares but makes sure to remember to tell lies when he overshares.

    6. Re:Hidden in plain sight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You did file a complaint with the FBI office in Palo Alto? This country can't afford to have I.T. closet cleaners looking at Windows in the datacenter.

    7. Re: Hidden in plain sight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And yet, you look like the idiot.

    8. Re:Hidden in plain sight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

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              6)Why-are-there-dashes & weird stuffI know most only skim thse posts. I want the most imprtnt infrmton to pop out at a glnce & to keep it shrt. I dont use TCDRs name becase he may think tht he benfits from geting it indxed by serch engnes. Id like 2 thnk TCDR & FCLM for editrial advice

    9. Re: Hidden in plain sight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, but you are an idiot, so I'm still ahead of the game!

    10. Re:Hidden in plain sight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you add your Russian copies, does that make 100+ videos???

      The question then becomes: does that make twice as many views, or twice as many people that ignore you?

    11. Re:Hidden in plain sight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Creimer would be less conspicious"

      "conspicuous", you lard-based mutant.

  11. Extreme willingness to Help by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So it's all voluntary, and since it's not legislated it is also illegal, right? Here, on the other side of the world we legislate any government actions that might endanger the rights of the citizens. The likes of AT&T would have no option to refuse helping when the surveillance permit is provided. And our representatives have discussed the relevant laws publicly as applicable with the news covering the issue. I think it's called the rule of law or something like that..

    1. Re: Extreme willingness to Help by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "rule of badlaw"

  12. Easy way to confirm the findings by Khyber · · Score: 1

    Just burn those buildings down. If whomever does so gets picked up by services higher than the FBI, you already know AT&T is utterly their bitch and helping them spy on us.

    --
    Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
    1. Re:Easy way to confirm the findings by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      You first. Also they know you said it now.

      Oh wait that's right you only harass Republican women. Scared?

    2. Re:Easy way to confirm the findings by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 1

      10 S Canal St is right next 2 train stations so you will being looking at some hard time starting at 2700 S California Ave or 71 W Van Buren St

    3. Re:Easy way to confirm the findings by Khashishi · · Score: 1

      So the "easy way" involves getting disappeared to some secret torture facility.

    4. Re: Easy way to confirm the findings by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Watch out for the van buren boys. I heard they run the prison. If you don't know their secret handshake, good luck.

    5. Re:Easy way to confirm the findings by mrbester · · Score: 2

      No need to resort to arson. Just rock up with some friends in hi-viz jackets and some pneumatic drills and "accidentally" cut through the cables when digging up the street...

      --
      "Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
  13. Re:Trump gets blamed for this.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Could have sworn Trump tried to go after the TLAs, but was soundly condemned for it by both sides of the aisle...

  14. Um, wrong by 110010001000 · · Score: 2

    The Washington DC one is a Verizon switching center, not an AT&T one. You can go look yourself.

    1. Re:Um, wrong by darkain · · Score: 1

      Some of these buildings have multiple tenants inside of them. The Seattle building is owned by Qwest Communications, part of CenturyLink now (which also owns Level3). The building is a peering location, with AT&T being one of the major peers.

    2. Re:Um, wrong by 110010001000 · · Score: 1, Troll

      I can confirm that the NSA is not monitoring from this location. We do all our monitoring from 3400 Conne

    3. Re:Um, wrong by nadass · · Score: 0

      The Washington DC one is a Verizon switching center, not an AT&T one. You can go look yourself.

      Yeah, the story makes clear that Qwest (CenturyLink) [Seattle] and Verizon [DC] own several buildings but AT&T simply leases space for their own telecom needs. You know there are tin-foil hats being worn when the space-leasing is assumedly nefarious in nature.

    4. Re:Um, wrong by 110010001000 · · Score: 0

      The ironic part is that is where we store the UFOs. Author was right, just had wrong conclusion.

  15. Whisperl in the wind. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Imagine for a second, quantum communications has been invented. No middle-man, no last-mile. Untraceable, unbreakable. To say this would be a revolution would be an understatement.* Entire industries would collapse. Governments could no longer "trust, but verify". Spying would have to go back to flesh and blood.

    *Only a electronic hive mind would be more revolutionary.

  16. Monopolies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Government backed monopoly
    Government backed consumers models
    Government backed ISP infrastructure
    Government backed censorship

    At least China is up front about these things.

  17. Crazy Conspiracy Theories by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    All these crazy conspiracy theories were debunked years ago under Barry Obama. The NSA keeps us safe and secure. Heil Hitlary!

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

    1. Re: Crazy Conspiracy Theories by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      I still haven't seen his birth certificate.

  18. 3 LETTERS NSA JEW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    decide.

  19. Well no kidding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What did you think the windowless black AT&T building was for?

  20. Re: Trump gets blamed for this.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Trump went after the Red Hen restaurant as part of the deep state.

  21. Room 641A by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Leave it to the Intercept to report on a 12 year old story as if it was suddenly new information coming to light. I suppose they can get a little credit for listing 7 other AT&T sites that have dedicated rooms for NSA listening equipment, but it was already known that even after AT&T engineer, Mark Klein, blew the whistle on the NSA surveillance, the NSA did NOT it shut down and withdraw the equipment. Much of the article just goes over previously reported facts. And to make this a complete wash of a story, there's nothing that can be done about it, because Congress back when this story because widespread gave telecoms immunity from violating any laws pertaining to aiding the NSA. So thanks Intercept for publishing a story that already been thoroughly covered in the last few years, while Glen Greenwald continues to sit on his fat gatekeeping ass over the some 85%-95% remaining documents in the Snowden trove. Stuff that potentially really could change the political landscape if they were ever published, but the oligarch over the Intercept, Pierre Omidyar, won't permit it.

    1. Re: Room 641A by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's just the tip of the iceberg. One room.

      Read the summary, they have 12 of those spy rooms scattered across America.

    2. Re: Room 641A by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It was always thought that the NSA had other rooms at other AT&T sites along with other telecom carriers, various internet exchanges, and the Dulles corridor where some 85%+ of the world's internet traffic flows through. I won't say don't read it because it can serve as a good backgrounder for people that haven't followed the story closely, but there's not much in the way of new surprising revelations here.

  22. NSA is AT&T's customer, no ethics are involved by Medievalist · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Under GW Bush the telcos all claimed they were doing unconstitutional widespread monitoring of law abiding citizens because they were totally patriotic and selfless. They wrapped themselves in the flag.

    McCain and Obama both broke off campaigning for the Presidency so they could give the telcos immunity from prosecution, despite both of them saying they wouldn't (Obama saying so quite strongly).

    BUT when the fedguv screwed up their accounting and stopped paying the bill, the telcos immediately cut them off, proving their true motivation - wealth.

    Patriots acting for a principle don't stop acting just because they aren't being bribed enough.

  23. Re: Trump gets blamed for this.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Obama....red line....Syria...
    Ring any bells? Thought not.

  24. 5ESS System by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Such a good switching equipment :P

  25. Alex Marshall Mcquown=Khyber=Jailbird by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Alex Marshall Mcquown=Khyber=Jailbird (some "success story" (lol, not)) https://unicourt.com/case/ca-r... LOSER & from what I understand he is also a homosexual deviant and severe DRUG ADDICT & ALCOHOLIC also - lol, some "success" (more like a human disaster).

    * Take a peek @ his post history - you'll see "RaGinG" replies @ others for NO REAL REASON (when the truth is he is only "AnGrY" w/ himself & detests anyone who is doing well since he's not - he did it to himself).

    (BONY little 130 lb. LOON threatened a D.A. & has been arrested in other states as well from what I found on him - he's a fruitloop & STUPID as well as a whimp!)

    Everything that CAN be wrong w/ a guy? IS "Khyber"... lol, no shit.

    APK

    P.S.=> Your DIM brains are blatantly inferior evidenced by your FAKE NAMES online for FAKE lives of being "ne'er-do-well" scum having the AUDACITY to even TRY "F" w/ me & ones like you you INFERIOR swine as I cast PEARLS before SWINE like you... apk

    1. Re: Alex Marshall Mcquown=Khyber=Jailbird by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nobody cares, Alexander Penis Kowalski. Give it up, go and write some software or pick up litter or something.

    2. Re: Alex Marshall Mcquown=Khyber=Jailbird by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Lay off the meth, broham.

  26. Re:NSA is AT&T's customer, no ethics are invol by zlives · · Score: 1

    ..."aren't being bribed enough"
    but its the american way

  27. Re: Trump gets blamed for this.. by zlives · · Score: 1

    Red Hen was not deep state, but national security issue. Only the Kernally Fried Chicken must remain supreme.

  28. Re: Trump gets blamed for this.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Trump supporters are really fucking dumb:

    OLD SAYBROOK, CT (WFSB) -
    A restaurant in Old Saybrook is facing backlash for actions of another restaurant of the same name.

    Old Saybrook's Red Hen restaurant is feeling the heat after the Red Hen in Lexington, VA refused to serve White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders earlier this week.

    Owner of the Red Hen in Old Saybrook, Shelley DeProto, told Channel 3 on Sunday that she and her employees have been getting non-stop phone messages and social media posts full of hatred and anger only because of its name, even though DeProto's restaurant has no connection to the restaurant in Virginia.

  29. IMPERSONATING me AGAIN? Please... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: Cut & paste something I said to Khyber or those noting him LONG ago isn't me - want to see what I did say to Khyber today? https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12266978&cid=56843354/

    * NOTHING BUT FACT/TRUTH ABOUT HIM FROM REPUTABLE LEGAL SOURCES (& disreputable from HIS mouth too) after HE started w/ me 1st of course (as always just as this attempt @ "setup" transparent as it is IS).

    APK

    P.S.=> See subject lastly - PITIFUL trying to make it look like I am "STALKING" Khyber - Man, the LAST THING I WANT is to even be near to OR hear that DEVIANT FELON FREAK period... apk

    1. Re: IMPERSONATING me AGAIN? Please... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why are you replying to his posts that have nothing to do with you?

      To me...that constitutes stalking. We are discussing government intrusion, he posted on topic, you...not so much. You saw his post and immediately attacked him off topic. Aka stalking.

      Oh, shall we also post your court history? We all have a story to tell, don't judge a man based on his past deeds.

  30. Khyber cut your BITCH FAG games, ok? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Trying to make it LOOK like I "stalk you" when the truth is I want no PART of your felon twisted ass freak per https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12275100&cid=56843816/ YOU starting SHIT w/ me there too as always (& fucking up BIG on hosts entries, lol - the "BIG BRAIN" (not) Khyber bullshit artist homo jailbird FREAK you are).

    In fact, I'm VERY SURE it's you pulling the nigh CONSTANT stalking of MYSELF by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous troll posts - doesn't take a BIG BRAIN to figure it out - you petty waste of life.

    * Do you KNOW how EASY IT IS to see RIGHT thru your petty faggot games homo? You ALL act that way UNTIL you "F" yourselves as you did in the LINK ABOVE...

    APK

    P.S.=> Yes, folks - that IS Khyber's FUCKED UP LIFE for real from reputable LEGAL sources & his OWN twisted mind + mouth verbatim.. apk

    1. Re:Khyber cut your BITCH FAG games, ok? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You are obsessed with Kyber as well as many others, (zontar, ol olsoc, whipslash, etc.). You do stalk them and when your dumb ass gets beaten hard you start lashing out randomly at people. Face it APK you are useless as is your work. You can't actually defend your actions or your work so you just try to deflect and change the subject or spam some random shit. Speaking of random shit maybe you can tell us about your "success" you had which was actually having one of your shitty simplistic idea rejected by some other project.

  31. Who cares about eavesdropping? by DogDude · · Score: 1

    The American people spend millions every year for their own personal eavesdropping devices that they keep in their pockets, their pocketbooks, and their bedrooms. I think that saying that Americans don't care about their privacy is (somehow) an understatement.

    --
    I don't respond to AC's.
  32. Mildly interesting, but not EXACTLY 100% by bferrell · · Score: 1

    I work down the street from 611 Folsom. In the Network diagram with thumbnails, the ominous building shown for that address is down the street and belongs to PG&E. The shots of 611 Folsom in the body are from the parking lot and the alley behind it... Not really very pretty or representative of the building. From the street, the building just looks like your everyday office building. Look at google maps street view.

    I know, why is that important? Because when they go to that length to make it look bad, it makes me wonder why they couldn't just let the story tell itself?

    And as someone else pointed out, old news.

    Why is there SO much of this these days? It hurts the credibility of what good reporting there is

    1. Re:Mildly interesting, but not EXACTLY 100% by Known+Nutter · · Score: 1

      The building in the thumbnail is indeed 611 Folsom. The PG&E building you are referring to is Embarcadero Substation (aka Station Z), located at Fremont and Folsom. There are two nefarious looking buildings there now. The larger of the two is the original 230 kV distribution substation (Z) and the new smaller building contains GIS switchgear.

      --
      Beware of the Leopard.
    2. Re:Mildly interesting, but not EXACTLY 100% by bferrell · · Score: 1

      Probably looking at different thumbnails then.

      The substation is quite distinctive... Huge blockhouse/fortress looking building. Blank facades on all sides, with a door sized entrance, and truck entrance right next to that on folsom. That is 422 Folsom (fremont and folsom) and one I saw in the thumbnail on the map.

      631 Folsom has a kind of blank facade and smallish plaza on Folsom, but it faces 2nd street.

      Going against traffic from there, everything all the way back to third just look like very ordinary office building and/or condos.

      Nothing to see here... Move along

    3. Re:Mildly interesting, but not EXACTLY 100% by Known+Nutter · · Score: 1

      Just FTR, this is the thumb I was seeing:

      https://i.imgur.com/nlkWKup.pn...

      --
      Beware of the Leopard.
    4. Re:Mildly interesting, but not EXACTLY 100% by bferrell · · Score: 1

      Yeah, different thumb.

      That's the Folsom side of the building that faces 2nd street... Ugly as the worst thing people can imagine.

    5. Re:Mildly interesting, but not EXACTLY 100% by bferrell · · Score: 1

      And looking around, it really doesn't have a front... Just one of those silly corner entrances.

      It's a Central Office/Data Center building. Not too surprising it doesn't have windows. They tend to make temperature control... Interesting.

      I once worked in an old building that they decided to put a modern switch into, but leave the south facing windows intact for the aesthetics... We got a 30 degree swing through the day. We put foam core panels with mylar space blankets glued onto one face in the windows to stabilize the temperature.

      It was pretty though.

    6. Re: Mildly interesting, but not EXACTLY 100% by Reverend+Green · · Score: 1

      1455 Market is a fascinating building. Look at it closely - it's quite secure. Really very secure.

      Uber moved it's headquarters there a few years ago. There are rumors about other tenants...

    7. Re: Mildly interesting, but not EXACTLY 100% by bferrell · · Score: 1

      30 years ago, it was a BofA processing office. You think the front is interesting? Try a cute little idea they called man traps at the entrance to every floor I had to visit... Little, and I do mean little, booths. Walk in one side. door closes, and only then does the inner door open.

      I hated to go there. It was a bear to get into the booth with my tools.

    8. Re: Mildly interesting, but not EXACTLY 100% by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Uber moved it's headquarters there a few years ago

      Of course they did. Its no surprise the most ayn-randian corp in the entire country would move into a fortress. They are all such anti-social snowflakes that they can only feel comfortable ensconced away in a high-security, ivory tower where they never have to even see the hoi polloi who actually do all the productive work that they just skim off.

  33. Pretty close to one location... by cooperaaaron · · Score: 1

    Hah, I can see the one in Illinois right out my window.... and I walk by it every day...

  34. Ameritech was evil as well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Back in 1998 before SBC bought Ameritech, Ameritech installed mirroring software on alll their tandem offices, and created a fiber link to North Carolina where the NSA recorded all tandem calls. This caused the Pontiac 50T to repeatedly crash. I knew people who were paniced over the crashing and how it might reveal everyone's "interoffice" calls were being recorded. Interoffice means any call that went off the local switch was probably captured. An example is a home phone call to a cell phone, or a call from one cell provider to another cell provider.

    Since everyone I know who built this are retired, I have no idea if it is still in use, but since when has the government ever given up on anything?

  35. Can't you READ- IMPERSONATING me AGAIN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject & "suddenly outta nowhere" Khyber has "anonymous defenders" now (Khyber by ac). You don't fool me. Fool yourself https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12275100&cid=56843840/ as your "JAILHOUSE LAWYER" bullshit now gives away EXACTLY what I said you're twisted HOMO abnormal druggie junkie Jailbird DULL BRAIN was "scheming" https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12275100&cid=56843840/ (I see right thru you & bank on it - so does ANYONE ELSE w/ a normal brain).

    * Khyber/Alex McQuown - seriously: Just because your life is a product of YOUR UTTER FUCKUPS https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12266978&cid=56843354/?

    Don't try "take it out" on guys like ME doing well in this world (Thank you Jesus/Grace of God & luck + work) - we didn't fuck you up - YOU did that to yourself per that link just above, not I.

    APK

    P.S.=> You're an idiot that's EASY TO SEE THRU playing BITCH FAG games (you're WORSE than women are & don't even TRY tell me "that's not how homos are" when I've known TONS of them & seen them f themselves up in some WEIRD "jealous rage" doing shit like you are now a CHILD can see thru, you weirdo)... apk

    1. Re:Can't you READ- IMPERSONATING me AGAIN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I find it much more likely that Khyber has AC defenders than you do. His defenders don't seem to use the same grammar, and make the same arguments as he does. You on the other hand will post unsigned as AC to pretend you have support. Here is a hint, your AC defenders make the exact same arguments you do using the same shitty grammar, and vocabulary as you. As always APK projects his problems on to others and will claim that instead they are projecting on to him.

  36. Why do you think SBC was allowed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    to re-amalgamate into what is effectively Ma Bell?

    It's because they scratched the government's back and in return the government scratched theirs. Unlike in the old days of Pinkerton Security or Ma Bell v1 we have effectively become a collusive fascist regime glued in place by a revolving door of political and corporate appointees with monopolies in effect in both the corporate and business world (anyone who thinks the Ds and Rs are more than superficially diverse hasn't been watching them vote on non-partisan issues that the public at large either wasn't aware of or didn't understand why they should care.)

  37. 197 petabytes of "metadata" per day. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That sure is a lot of storage just for a list of phone numbers.

  38. crazy... by 101percent · · Score: 1

    Kinda crazy to think it hasn't even been 100 years since technology was used to systematically cull the world of undesirable people through historically unprecedented violent means.

    1. Re:crazy... by senileoldfart · · Score: 1

      And data processing equipment supplied by IBM.

    2. Re:crazy... by 101percent · · Score: 1

      Well yeah if you want to get into details.

  39. Go figure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    A company going out of their way to cooperate with warrant-less surveillance gets green lighted for all manor of mergers & government contracts. Meanwhile any company that opposes these activities (see Qwest) gets all of their government contracts canceled and "coincidental" investigations and charges which slow/kill their company.

    1. Re:Go figure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's they same reason they don't allow Huawai. All their spying shit would get blocked/detected.

  40. Re: Trump gets blamed for this.. by senileoldfart · · Score: 1

    Trump on both sides of every issue, sometimes in the same day.

  41. Three Words by DougDot · · Score: 1

    The Phone Company

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  42. Does at&t have a choice? by p51d007 · · Score: 1

    Say they refused to cooperate with the NSA/CIA/FBI or any number of alphabet agencies. They'd have the FCC drum up something and come down on them like a ton of bricks. Oh? at&t? You want to expand into this or that? Sorry, can't let you do that. Don't underestimate the power of the deep state to get what they want!

  43. sheep by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    all americans are brainless sheep anyway, who cares

  44. Re:NSA is AT&T's customer, no ethics are invol by jcr · · Score: 1

    I remember the first time President Choom signed a bill extending the PATRIOT act, despite having said (correctly) during his first presidential campaign that it's unconstitutional. Anyone who still supported him after that was either not paying attention, or a goddamned hypocrite.

    -jcr

    --
    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
  45. Wiretapping citizens illegally by sjbe · · Score: 2

    There are legitimate reasons for the NSA's data access.

    At times yes. Nobody argued otherwise. Problem is that they cannot seem to restrain themselves from listening in on people who they should need a warrant to listen to. It's not even a debate that they performed illegal and unjustified surveillance of US citizens.

    The NSA and CIA are legally empowered by all three branches of the government to conduct surveillance operations to safe guard the security of the US.

    That doesn't mean they get to step on my civil rights in the process. Their convenience does not supersede my Constitutional rights.

    1. Re:Wiretapping citizens illegally by DeVilla · · Score: 1

      I think the statement here is that all 3 branches of the government who are responsible for protecting your civil rights disagree with your interpretation of your Constitutional rights.

  46. Khyber has no defense against this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I don't need anything defending me against you Khyber vs. facts about how twisted + self-ruined you are https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12275100&cid=56843816/ You have no defense against all that and nobody normal would defend let alone want to be associated with an extortionist criminal like you Khyber by anonymous posting.

    Cut your bitch games trying to "frame me" I am STALKING you when that very thread there shows you doing it to me (& I am certain you're stalking me by anonymous posts now seeing you started trouble with me there and BLEW it on a simple hosts file entry format).

    Believe me - I don't even want to be anywhere NEAR you as what you are might be contagious.

    * Khyber you fucked up your life permanently. It's not my fault, it's yours. Nobody else's... so don't try take it out on others.

    APK

    P.S.=> You sick twisted freak... apk

    1. Re:Khyber has no defense against this by Khyber · · Score: 1

      God I love how utterly mentally deranged APK is. No wonder Jan got the fuck out of Syracuse and moved to Saint Augustine. Perhaps I should give her a call and ask.

      --
      Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
  47. Khyber you're a proven felonious nutjob by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject & https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... + registered /.ers disagree w/ you on my work https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... which a rotten corrupted twisted multiple felon deviant WEIRDO like YOU Khyber can't ever achieve in computer sciences and you know it.

    * Prove otherwise...

    APK

    P.S.=> You can't and just because you wrecked your life you try take it out on others like myself who are doing well in the art & science of computing... apk

  48. Why was just this link down around 3am GMT Jun 26? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    when at least some other parts of Slashdot (the ones I browsed at least) were up?

    I finally had to get to the underlying intercept link via a different site.

  49. Take your own advice Khyber by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Take your own advice Khyber https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    * By the way - you KNOW what you replied to isn't me - it's YOU Khyber playing your "BITCH HOMO" games trying to make it LOOK like I am "stalking you" YET HERE YOU ARE @ IT AGAIN doing it yourself - get a life, felon loser.

    APK

    P.S.=> No joke: Anything that CAN be wrong w/ a guy? Is Khyber (who f'd his own life up SO BADLY he tries take it out on others)... apk

    1. Re:Take your own advice Khyber by Khyber · · Score: 1

      Anyone want APK's address? I finally have it. It's for sale and it is proven valid and current!

      Let's see your HOSTs file filter spam from a physical mailbox!

      --
      Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
  50. Reminds me of... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Reminds me of a company I worked at in Silicon Valley that used to lease one of their building to the CIA via an anonymized corporation. The CIA built a listening center and fortified the walls with steel and added a large square vault style door to secure the room. Antennas were disguised as HVAC equipment on the roof. Crazy stuff.

  51. Why is it OK when ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... greedy SillyCon Valley sociopaths like The Zuck do it, but evil when the government does it?

    Seriously? You praise companies like Facebook for being 'disruptive'. The NSA is just full of hipstery brogrammer types like yourselves. You should love them.

  52. 4th Amendment by Agripa · · Score: 1

    Since the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of government are not enforcing the 4th Amendment and are not going to, I no longer care about court decisions and the false reassurances from politicians. The solution is much more practical; encrypt absolutely everything and throw away the session keys. With some cleverness, even traffic analysis can be prevented by multiplying traffic which the ISPs should love since they have so much extra capacity.

  53. Khyber stalking me? Let's see who's deranged by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Here's what I see as FACT about you: Arrest & prison time + probation violation threatening a gov't. official (District Attorney - HOW STUPID ARE YOU?) #1/2 https://www.rapsheets.org/cali...

    #2/2 prison time https://unicourt.com/case/ca-r... (brb in a minute w/ ones out of state of California)

    Guess what DUMBFUCK? Can't SUE me for facts about you I read from LEGAL SOURCES stupid fuck!

    FELONY THREATS to a DA & threats to SUE me repeatedly https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... OR "come visit me" https://slashdot.org/comments.... or "dox" me etc. & WORSE https://slashdot.org/comments.... is that AGAIN with your other EXTORTION, JAILTIME, PROBATION VIOLATION recidivism.

    MORE THREATS TO "kill me" or "end my sanity" https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12199712&cid=56738758/ ? TRY IT you deviant ABNORMAL twisted little COCKSUCKER. It'd be the LAST THING you ever try.

    * Keep it up like THIS threat of yours @ me AGAIN sweetie https://slashdot.org/comments.... pusscake!

    You'll get ENDED or you'll be in the BUNK w/ "Good Ole' LEROY" soon enough as his Special "Lil' Teddybear" that you OBVIOUSLY deeply MISS, SOON enough BOY, hahahaha!

    Nobody BELIEVES A WORD YOUR DEMENTED ASS SAYS after the above & what you've DIRECTED MY WAY TOO you fucking LITTLE 10lb. PUSSY motherfucker bitch homo https://slashdot.org/comments.... (despite your UNIDENTIFIABLE ANONYMOUS SUPPORT NET here & there, lol)

    From what I heard about you? YOU ARE A BITCH that TAKES IT RIGHT UP THE ASS, ugh (disgusting/abnormal/DEVIANT/weirdo) AFTER you've been PUMPED UP with "good drugs" (man, even worse - sounds like you SELL it for dope, lol) per https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7892497&cid=50385967/ @ a porn shop as a sexworker (lol) YOU BRAG OF https://slashdot.org/comments.... & FIRED JOB AFTER JOB+ ARREST after ARREST https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... BRAGGING YO A Gangstuh https://slashdot.org/comments.... (lol, punk pussy is more it).

    APK

    P.S.=> Perhaps LIBEL of myself should be amongst your "FINE RECORD" (not) per:

    "NOD32 detects a trojan in APK's HOSTS bullshit." - by Khyber on Saturday August 22, 2015

    VirusTotal & NOD32 SHOW CLEAN IN ITS EXES

    https://www.virustotal.com/en/...

    + MORE LIES

    "he's tying to get your fucking information." - by Khyber on August 22, 2015

    My program doesn't transmit outward!

    TONS more than this on you too on your HUGE tech fuckup record vs. me!

    (Truth about you KILLS you, blame yourself, not I - freak)... apk

  54. Khyber = recidivist criminal crackpot (proof) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Here's what I see as FACT about you: Arrest & prison time + probation violation threatening a gov't. official (District Attorney - HOW STUPID ARE YOU?) #1/2 https://www.rapsheets.org/cali...

    #2/2 prison time https://unicourt.com/case/ca-r... (brb in a minute w/ ones out of state of California)

    Guess what DUMBFUCK? Can't SUE me for facts about you I read from LEGAL SOURCES stupid fuck!

    FELONY THREATS to a DA & threats to SUE me repeatedly https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... OR "come visit me" https://slashdot.org/comments.... or "dox" me etc. & WORSE https://slashdot.org/comments.... is that AGAIN with your other EXTORTION, JAILTIME, PROBATION VIOLATION recidivism.

    MORE THREATS TO "kill me" or "end my sanity" https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12199712&cid=56738758/ ? TRY IT you deviant ABNORMAL twisted little COCKSUCKER. It'd be the LAST THING you ever try.

    * Keep it up like THIS threat of yours @ me AGAIN sweetie https://slashdot.org/comments.... pusscake!

    You'll get ENDED or you'll be in the BUNK w/ "Good Ole' LEROY" soon enough as his Special "Lil' Teddybear" that you OBVIOUSLY deeply MISS, SOON enough BOY, hahahaha!

    Nobody BELIEVES A WORD YOUR DEMENTED ASS SAYS after the above & what you've DIRECTED MY WAY TOO you fucking LITTLE 10lb. PUSSY motherfucker bitch homo https://slashdot.org/comments.... (despite your UNIDENTIFIABLE ANONYMOUS SUPPORT NET here & there, lol)

    From what I heard about you? YOU ARE A BITCH that TAKES IT RIGHT UP THE ASS, ugh (disgusting/abnormal/DEVIANT/weirdo) AFTER you've been PUMPED UP with "good drugs" (man, even worse - sounds like you SELL it for dope, lol) per https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7892497&cid=50385967/ @ a porn shop as a sexworker (lol) YOU BRAG OF https://slashdot.org/comments.... & FIRED JOB AFTER JOB+ ARREST after ARREST https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... BRAGGING YO A Gangstuh https://slashdot.org/comments.... (lol, punk pussy is more it).

    APK

    P.S.=> Perhaps LIBEL of myself should be amongst your "FINE RECORD" (not) per:

    "NOD32 detects a trojan in APK's HOSTS bullshit." - by Khyber on Saturday August 22, 2015

    VirusTotal & NOD32 SHOW CLEAN IN ITS EXES

    https://www.virustotal.com/en/...

    + MORE LIES

    "he's tying to get your fucking information." - by Khyber on August 22, 2015

    My program doesn't transmit outward!

    TONS more than this on you too on your HUGE tech fuckup record vs. me!

    (Truth about you KILLS you, blame yourself, not I - freak)... apk

    1. Re:Khyber = recidivist criminal crackpot (proof) by Khyber · · Score: 1

      Son, you act as if any of this would stop me or any of my friends that live in your area from fucking you up.

      Think a little harder, you brain-damaged fuckwit.

      If I've got the balls to supposedly go after a District Attorney, what makes you think your tiny ass is LESS VULNERABLE?

      Do you even understand basic power structure, moron?

      You're far, FAR below me. I could literally RAPE YOU at any time and you couldn't fight back. That's the literal power structure, you tiny bitch boi. I've been physically watching you through people I know in your neighborhood. You're bitch-mode. You couldn't fight back if your life DEPENDED ON IT. My pinky could arm-wrestle your ass into the fucking ground, twink.

      Should I start posting the pictures my pals have been taking of you AND YOUR FELLOW DRUG-ADDLED RESIDENTS?

      --
      Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
  55. They're comm exchanges, not 'NSA Buildings' by TheRealHocusLocus · · Score: 1

    Callback to a recent posting on 5EYES that references this topic. I'm lukewarm about this 'exposé', they're presenting a number of buildings that are communications exchanges and dubbing them NSA buildings. Weatherproof climate controlled spaces are not spooky. This is ripe for debunking as anyone counters with their primary uses, and this issue is too critical to have agitated people harassing anyone who enters and exits the buildings as spooks. We now have two full generations of young who were not exposed to telecommunications lore. The latest generation, scarcely even landlines.

    The dangerous technology is scattered throughout as splitter cabinets and the occasional server room. And 'dark' fiber of course, to carry the booty to Utah.

    Other writing you might not enjoy,
    > Things have got to change, But first, you gotta get mad!
    > NSA and the Desolation of Smaug
    > I am Sam. Uncle Sam I am.
    > I really hated Men In Black
    > Am I the first to suggest... BLACKMAIL??
    > Sherlock Holmes: training wheels for NSA surveillance
    > Stick a fork in the Republic, it's done. HR4681/309 (failed submission)
    > The backbone, then (1980s) and now
    > Whatever happened to the 'old' NSA? Directive 18?
    > Last Wish: The Pact (dystopian fiction)

    --
    <blink>down the rabbit hole</blink>
  56. MEET ME at your riser! by TheRealHocusLocus · · Score: 1

    Meet Me at Your Riser [2013] is a purely aesthetic Phillip Glassy video presentation by Deborah Natsios, who with John Young runs the successful CRYPTOME.ORG website.

    The insinuation is, the practice is not relegated to willing participants such as AT&T, it may well include other carriers whose fiber has been secretly split in the 'telecom risers' that ascend throughout the building. Are Young/Natsios insinuating this from theory or an anonymous tip? You may as well ask how licks to the center of a Tootsie Pop.

    CRYPTOME.ORG is a spooky and funny place... since 1996 it has provided a continuous stream of articles, whistle-blows and odd bits for the intelligence community, even serving as a pre-Wikileaks leaks site. Its regular visitors most surely include spooks of the world, that is, the 'top brass' that are not terrified of surfing into things beyond their own cubicle secrecy level. John Young has managed to maintain a playful counterpoint to the stern countenance (serious face) of the State intelligence profession and tugs on the community and keeps them coming back for more, or so he says, looking at his logs. He doxxed them before 'dox' was a word, blew the cover on deep state telecom interception and NSA Charter violations (no one listened of course) and has embarked on other projects as amateur sleuth. His post-9/11 Ground Zero photo collection is hi res and second to none.

    Over the years he has dropped interesting tidbits with 'A Sends...' (Anonymous)... his PGP key is ludicrously long... and some of the tips appearing on his site have had the stamp of foreign state actors. Of course he posts it without personal bias and you can bet some true limited hangouts and pissing contests have been published on Cryptome to get them 'out there'. For $100 he offers the entire collection of hosted files to date. A great gift for Santa Spook.

    --
    <blink>down the rabbit hole</blink>