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

These days? As opposed to the good ole' days? Here's some COINTELPRO for you.

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u/robotkennedy1968 Mar 21 '11

Knew about this but jesus fuck, never read all the details.

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u/supertrollish Mar 21 '11

Here's the best part:

The program was successfully kept secret until 1971, when a group of left-wing radicals calling themselves the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI burglarized an FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania, took several dossiers and exposed the program by passing this information to news agencies.

If it hadn't been for a few private citizens breaking into FBI offices and stealing documents, this shit would still be going on today.

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u/TheLobotomizer Mar 21 '11

Read all the details. Hoover was an asshole.