AT&T Forwarding All Internet Traffic to NSA? 682
An anonymous reader writes "SpamDailyNews is reporting that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a brief that claims AT&T has been forwarding internet traffic directly into the hands of the NSA. The brief was filed under seal (a procedure that allows only the judge and the litigants to view the document) in order to give the court time to review the information. From the article: 'More than just threatening individuals' privacy, AT&T's apparent choice to give the government secret, direct access to millions of ordinary Americans' Internet communications is a threat to the Constitution itself. We are asking the Court to put a stop to it now.'"
Re:Coincidence? (Score:5, Funny)
The best thing about Verizon (Score:1, Funny)
Easy (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The last straw (Score:3, Funny)
Call in and bitch about the service being too slow.
Fire up BitTorrent, and start downloading Linux distros like there's no tomorrow. And seed them. All of them. Don't throttle the upload, either. (and, of course, disable BitTorrent when they're on a service call)
Re:Hmm (Score:5, Funny)
You must be one of them!
Re:Email isn't protected communications. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Email isn't protected communications. (Score:3, Funny)
We're the phone company ..... (Score:2, Funny)
Here at the Phone Company we handle eighty-four billion calls a year. Serving everyone from presidents and kings to scum of the earth. We realize that every so often you can't get an operator, for no apparent reason your phone goes out of order [plucks plug out of switchboard], or perhaps you get charged for a call you didn't make.
We don't care.
Watch this - [bangs on a switch panel like a cheap piano] just lost Peoria.
You see, this phone system consists of a multibillion-dollar matrix of space-age technology that is so sophisticated, even we can't handle it. But that's your problem, isn't it ? Next time you complain about your phone service, why don't you try using two Dixie cups with a string.
[loud, booming voice-over] We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company.
Re:Out of control ? (Score:5, Funny)
Which is exactly why we need a state crackdown, and to spy on our own civilians! Who knows what the Enemy Within might be plotting? It would be disastrous if one of these people, with no respect for the rights and traditions of Western civilisation, were to infiltrate the corridors of power - imagine the damage that could be done!
slogan (Score:3, Funny)
To the NSA.
(Thanks EFF)
The more I see (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Will they open documents? (Score:2, Funny)
You may use Verizon for your last mile, but AT&T's network is so sprawling that probably 90% of all North American internet traffic crosses their lines at some point, so you'd still be affected by this even though you don't pay AT&T a monthly bill.
In Soviet Russia... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, wait...
Nevermind. Nothing to see here, move on please.
Who is this? Prank caller, prank caller! (Score:3, Funny)
Are you messenging me on AT&T? I don't know you. Who is this? Don't come here, I'm closing the window! Prank caller, prank caller!
Re:Coincidence? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Coincidence? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Coincidence? (Score:3, Funny)
--jeffk++
forwarded to whom? (Score:1, Funny)
Not my problem (Score:4, Funny)
But wait a minute...
Re:Coincidence? (Score:3, Funny)