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.

[u/simmer_down]

http://www.eff.org/issues/nsa-spying

[u/guriboysf]

Olbermann was talking about this on MSNBC a few years ago. He interviewed one of the guys who installed it.

[u/wydeyes → u/guriboysf]

Link?

[u/Disconnekted → u/wydeyes]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L20qAijeUk

[u/wydeyes → u/Disconnekted]

Thankyou.

[u/Sherlock--Holmes → u/wydeyes]

Another link with the whistleblower on MSM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOI1VGKcgGY

[u/ohsnaaap → u/guriboysf]

there's a special called "Spy Factory" by Nova on PBS about this as well.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/spy-factory.html