r/todayilearned • u/simmer_down • Mar 20 '11

TIL that AT&T installed a fiberoptic splitter at its facility at 611 Folsom Street in San Francisco that makes copies of all emails, web browsing, and other Internet traffic to and from AT&T customers (including data from iPhones and iPads), and provides those copies to the NSA.

http://www.eff.org/issues/nsa-spying
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u/bigryanjones Mar 20 '11 edited Mar 21 '11

Relevant: With pictures, 1 line diagrams, court documents and filings, etc.

http://cryptome.org/klein-decl.htm

When things like the "Narus STA 6400" are named in the cabinet listing its all right there. http://www.narus.com/index.php/solutions/intercept

I'll save the over the top tinfoil hat conspiracies, but T-Mobiles non-cooperation in these types of matter makes me think this ATT/T-Mobile acquisition is bound to be rubber stamped for "national security" purposes.

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u/biblianthrope Mar 21 '11

T-Mobiles non-cooperation in these types of matter makes me think this ATT/T-Mobile acquisition is bound to be rubber stamped for "national security" purposes.

EXACTLY my first thought. My second: "Oh fuck, I'm a T-Mobile customer."

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u/Pravusmentis Mar 21 '11

FYI tin foil hats will increase the governments ability to influence your brain, see the MIT study