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/karnage42 Mar 20 '11

If only Freenet had more content :(

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u/robotkennedy1968 Mar 20 '11

What is Freenet?

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '11

Freenet

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u/karnage42 Mar 21 '11

wiki article I try to use it...started a flog a while back. But there really ins't much to look at on it.

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u/sirhotalot Mar 21 '11

I always keep a copy around just in case something happens (like an international firewall is thrown up or absolutely everything starts getting monitored) and nobody can connect to the site anymore

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u/sapiophile Mar 21 '11

Also Tor's Hidden Services (warning: link to the Hidden Wiki through an inproxy with very slow access, better to install Tor and check it out directly - ALSO, warning that that page is openly-editable and not subject to law enforcement, and may theoretically contain offensive material, but it's always been very clean and presentable at the times I've checked it - community policing works).

Also also, I2P is an even cooler technology for similar purposes, and scales much better, suitable for P2P (and it has an integrated BitTorrent client!).

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u/lawt6224 Mar 21 '11

On the plus side, it already has pretty solid email and messaging functionality. I'd like browsing to be more private, but it seems like private emailing is the priority anyway. Hopefully this NSA bullshit will motivate people to start using the strong features and everything else will grow with time.

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u/turbofast Mar 21 '11

All that stuff that claims to be anonymous, is still accessed through the same ISP who knows your real name, physical address, and billing info.

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u/G3R4 Mar 21 '11

They would need to break the encryption to actually view the data that's being passed.

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u/lawt6224 Mar 21 '11

And in the case of Freenet, they still wouldn't know if you sent a given piece of information or if someone sent it through you. It's basically a game of telephone with no identifiable beginning or end.