Saturday, June 8, 2013

NSA Copies Everything Off AT&T Fiberoptic Network In Switching Centers Nationwide

Recounted here:


In 2003, according to sworn testimony by a former AT&T engineer, the NSA began building a special room at the company’s switching center in San Francisco and at other AT&T switching centers around the country. Equipment in the room enabled NSA to siphon off a copy of every byte of data running through AT&T’s fiber-optic cable network, according to privacy advocates.