AT&T Seeks to Hide Spy Docs 157
UltimaGuy writes to mention a Wired article about some AT&T documents that have gone off the farm. An ex-employee provided some information to the EFF, to assist in their wiretapping case against the company. Ma Bell is now arguing the files are confidential, and shouldn't be used in a court case. From the article: "The documents, which the EFF filed under a temporary seal last Wednesday, purportedly detail how AT&T diverts internet traffic to the National Security Agency via a secret room in San Francisco and allege that such rooms exist in other AT&T switching centers."
This proves it, of course. (Score:5, Interesting)
In other words, AT&T has just admitted that they are spying on you.
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error: it's "Land of the Fee" (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Doesn't help fight terrorism (Score:5, Interesting)
History teaches us that this should not be a surprise [wikipedia.org]. Give the federal government excessive police powers ("But we need to hunt *communists*!") and they *will* abuse it.
Hitler was ahead of his time. We already tried claiming that we needed expanded police powers to hunt "communists". Now we're claiming that we need them to hunt "terrorists". Hitler just took the Reichstag fire and demanded more powers because he needed to hunt "communist terrorists".
Irresistible fallacious cheap shot (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Doesn't help fight terrorism (Score:3, Interesting)
It isn't. An elite BellSouth tech with 30+ years experience told me about a similar secret monitoring room in downtown Atlanta he had worked on in the mid-to-late '90s. He implied that it was FBI-run, but that there was no effective company monitoring of the extent of the tapping.