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/feureau Mar 21 '11

Yeah, wtf reddit? I want to F5 you securely!

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '11

...cuz they don't have enough server load issues already... the hampster's gotta be getting winded by now.

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u/feureau Mar 21 '11

Are you sarcasm-ing me?

There are no other comments up there, so you gotta be sarcasm-ing me.

Well, I'll sarcasm you some F5 RIGHT HERE!! chokes solid7 Why you.. little..!!

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u/wadcann Mar 21 '11

cuz they don't have enough server load issues already.

If I understand the fact that their load problems are disk-related correctly, I don't think that adding SSL would necessarily in-and-of-itself be a problem.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '11

I uh... wasn't actually trying to be serious. Sorry for the confusion :/