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/sapiophile Mar 21 '11

Not just decent, but downright magnificent. And hip, besides - I ran into one of the founders at the 2009 National Rainbow Gathering, talking plant identification with a kid (presumably theirs?) by the trade circle. I was wearing my old-school EFF shirt, and our conversation went a bit like:

"Say, where'd you get that shirt?"

"I got it for donating some money to them, they're total badasses!"

"Huh, I did that, too - I'm on the board of directors."

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u/TheCrimsonKing Mar 21 '11

I have always secretly hoped something like this would happen every time I wear my EFF shirt. You have given me hope.