Big Brother Spying on Americans' Internet Data? [AT&T Whistleblower Describes Secret Room..]

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[Sub-Driver]

blabber mouth

[DuncanWaring]

Isn’t this essentially the same thing as the Carnivore/Echelon programs of a decade ago?

[balch3]

Kline should be waterboarded.

[tobyhill]

“An exact copy of all Internet traffic that flowed through critical AT&T cables — e-mails, documents, pictures, Web browsing, voice-over-Internet phone conversations, everything — was being diverted to equipment inside the secret room,”

Prove it.

[coconutt2000]

Hmm... That secret room isn’t a secret room. It is the relay for the back-up satellite uplink...

How’s that for an explanation?

[mvpel]

Just the kind of tool that a President Hillary would love, eh?

[lepton]

Quite aside from nefarious uses, ordinary traffic analysis is done like this to optimize the networks. Further, for anything unencrypted, anyone that owns a device that passes internet traffic can look at that traffic. Gee, start with encrypting anything you have ANY interest in not being read, and go from there.

[TexasCajun]

Back in the day, I had one of the first network "Sniffer" data monitors.

[Michael.SF.]

An exact copy of all Internet traffic that flowed through critical AT&T cables -- e-mails, documents, pictures, Web browsing, voice-over-Internet phone conversations, everything

Pictures? Man, they must have one heck of a collection of porno.

[Caesar Soze]

Kline should be waterboarded.

Why? Waterboarding is a legal interrogation technique in which certain high profile terrorists, suspected to have knowledge of imminent attacks, are coerced into divulging that information. Do you think Kline has knowledge of an impending attack on America?

Or are you just trying to discredit the American Intelligence Community by suggesting that their interrogation techniques are used willy-nilly against American citizens?

[Lijahsbubbe]

the government has warrantless access to a great deal of Internet traffic should they care to take a peek.

Is anyone surprised by this? I would say this is no surprise, no matter what political party is in power.

[TexGuy]

Let's see ... Hmmmm ... Government Funded, Internet Traffic, San Francisco Men, Locked Dark Room, Images, Videos ...

Naaahh, I'm sure it was for a good cause.

[TWohlford]

“Isn’t this essentially the same thing as the Carnivore/Echelon programs of a decade ago?”

Yup.

And why would the Feds need a room at the ISP? Why not just use a few specialized routers at strategic locations?

[balch3]

he is a traitor to America and should be treated as such.

[Diogenesis]

The Pentagon CHOSE ABC to represent it. So either this is planned
OR
traitors are at BOTH ABC and the Pentagon.

Ms. Ashwari-Jennings:"You can trust us. Unless you are an American. "

[Proud_texan]

"Prove it."

Yeah, even though I'm not that technical the logistics seem imposing, it just doesn't "make sense" to me technically.

Of course that's thin ice but still. Perhaps someone with some technical expertise can shed some light on it.

[afnamvet]

I would like to see the proof of this as well having spent 32 years with PT&T,Pacific Bell,SBC and AT&T in Special Services.

[Caesar Soze]

GnuPG

Know it. Use it. Love it. There's a 50% chance that the tools of the GWOT will be in the hands of a Clinton in 2009. Best to prepare now, even if you never use it.

[rabscuttle385]

That sounds sooooo wrong.

[BGHater]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsFXmGbaLfc