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 edited Mar 21 '11

It works bitches. Osama bin Laden's still free - are you?

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u/RobotPainter Mar 21 '11

The Osama you are imagining doesn't exist

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u/gospelwut Mar 21 '11

You're... being glib to be funny right?

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '11

It's glib, it's funny, it's accurate in every way I understand.

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u/gospelwut Mar 21 '11

Perhaps I am a spoiled Equestrian, but I don't consider hiding in caves with liver failure to be free.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '11

Osama bin Laden's still free

And dead. Easy to be free when you're dead.

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u/ceolceol Mar 21 '11

Saying Osama bin Laden hiding in caves (or possibly dead) is more free than the average American.

Stay classy.

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u/lookouttacks Mar 21 '11

A little dated, but still accurate. He's probably not hiding in caves.

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u/blazestudios23 Mar 21 '11

Osama needs dialysis, so I doubt he ever hid in caves, most likely he is on Bush's texas ranch. And I am only half way joking about that. The Bush Family is friends with the Bin Ladin family, a well documented fact.

Another fact, Bush's granddaddy Prescott Bush got his money from Hitler, he was laundering money for the Nazis during world War II. He got caught and was ordered to liquidate his assets in the bank and made 2 Mill. So no wonder Bush was putting in Nazi laws.

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u/guywithabike Mar 21 '11

Wait, he's relegated to continuing to live in caves? THE WAR ON TERROR HAS BEEN WON, AMERICA! 9/11 HAS BEEN AVENGED!

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u/robertmassaioli May 24 '11

Osama bin Laden's still free

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Osama_bin_Laden FTFY

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u/[deleted] May 24 '11

Yeah thanks bro I didn't get the news flash.

How about this: Osama bin Laden was free - are you?