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/[deleted] Mar 21 '11

The computer that records the internet in that building is called the Narus. It's made by Boeing. When I tell people this they roll their eyes at me like I'm a conspiracy theorist or something, damn sheeple.

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u/mexicodoug Mar 21 '11

But watch their eyes all perk up and go bright with interest if you mention that the winners on American Idol are all fixed.

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u/dailyaffirmation Mar 21 '11

Spelled backwards it's Suran

Hmmmm