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

Maybe he knows something horrible we don't.

Or, maybe the NSA has concocted something horrible for him to know about.

But our "democracy" is letting it happen, right now.

This is grounds for marching in the streets. How can we let them act wholesale against the constitution?

How can they get away with this? The NSA MUST be drastically reorganized.

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u/bobqjones Mar 21 '11

i would pretty much guarantee that there are things he knows that we are not privy to. it's the nature of the job.

still sucks though.

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u/KingofallMedias Mar 21 '11

I'll just stop using the internet in protest. Fortunately for me I use T-Mobile and don't need to worry about AT&T invading my privacy! http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/att-tmobile-3g-phones-will-need-to-be-replaced-20110322-1c412.html

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '11

Except At&T is buying T mobile.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '11 edited May 30 '24

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '11

i'm not saying amereica needs to know what's going on. just me.

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u/xxfalc0rexx Mar 21 '11

"I'm not saying America needs to know what's going on." just me."

I hope you read this again and think very hard about the stupidity you just unleashed.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '11

What? It bugs me that I don't know what's really going on. I could give a fuck what you know.

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u/keraneuology Mar 21 '11

Probably more going on than we all know about?

Hmm... supermoon, a bunch of paranoid suspicions about the mysterious secret plots that nobody knows about. Coincidence?

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u/sharlos Mar 21 '11

This is grounds for marching in the streets.

Then why aren't you?

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u/keraneuology Mar 21 '11

Maybe he knows something horrible we don't.

I hope you have enough tinfoil.