AT&T allegedly installed secret internet surveillance rooms

[Bernie]

...The AT&T documentation published Tuesday, which consist of a subset of the pages already published by Wired News. They include AT&T wiring diagrams, equipment lists and task orders that appear to show the company tapping into fiber-optic cables at the point where its backbone network connects to other ISPs at a San Francisco switching office. The documents appear to show the company siphoning off the traffic to a room packed with internet-monitoring gear...

Read more at:
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2007/06/spy_room

[Videoskooter]

OMG, does that mean that the NSA has read everything Paul has published here?

This is no surprise. If you want to avoid this then stop using the internet, your plastic cards and your cell phone coz' we are tracked constantly.

Another government? They will do just the same, you know!

[ol'skinflint]

Originally Posted by Videoskooter

OMG, does that mean that the NSA has read everything Paul has published here?

This is no surprise. If you want to avoid this then stop using the internet, your plastic cards and your cell phone coz' we are tracked constantly.

Another government? They will do just the same, you know!

folks, give me a break. At this point, who needs any reminders that everything you do on the internet is being monitored? Email is NOT confidential, that's why any time you sign up with a service provider they ask for all sorts of identification, so they can catch people doing illegal stuff. But at least law enforcement have given advance notice that they're watching and they're producing their own TV program: it's called "To CAtch a Predator"

[paul]

Bernie, I heard about this a year ago. This is merely one of the many examples of the Gestapo tactics the Bush Crime Family has engaged in. This is the new face of America