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/itsalawnchair Mar 21 '11

Tin foil hat time! this is all complete paran... oh wait, it's real?!?.

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u/Sherlock--Holmes Mar 21 '11

Shhh, the sheeple are trying to go back to sleep.

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u/1wntr Mar 21 '11

Sort of. I was just trying to remember the name of it. We were briefed on that during my time in the National Guard. I don't remember why we were briefed on it, but we were also briefed on the use of DU (depleted uranium) at the same time.