{"id":198449,"date":"2007-11-08T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/08\/att-nsa-hoovered-the-entire-bloody-internet\/"},"modified":"2007-11-08T00:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T05:04:00","slug":"att-nsa-hoovered-the-entire-bloody-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/08\/att-nsa-hoovered-the-entire-bloody-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&T\/NSA Hoovered the Entire Bloody Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Klein is an American hero.<\/p>\n

For those of you who don’t know, Mark Klein is a retired technician at AT&T, and he was responsible for running wires to a splitter for the benefit of Room 641A of 611 Folsom Street, the secret room set up by the NSA at AT&T’s offices in San Francisco. He is Now lobbying congress not to grant retroactive immunity to the Telcos over the illegal NSA spying<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“That was my ‘aha!’ moment,” Klein said. “They’re sending the entire Internet to the secret room.”<\/p>\n

The diagram showed splitters, glass prisms that split signals from each network into two identical copies. One fed into the secret room, the other proceeded to its destination, he said.<\/p>\n

“This splitter was sweeping up everything, vacuum-cleaner-style,” he said. “The NSA is getting everything. These are major pipes that carry not just AT&T’s customers but everybody’s.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The illegal wiretapping that most telcos did on behalf of the NSA was far more extensive than previously revealed.<\/p>\n

This was not targeted at foreign calls routed through the US. Nor was it calls where one party was overseas. The NSA is actively collecting ALL THE DATA<\/span> going through AT&T internet exchange point<\/a>. Everything. Every email, every google query, every music download, every IP telephone call (and BTW, pretty much all long distance telephone calls at some point use TCP\/IP these days.)<\/p>\n

They took everything<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The telcos are claiming that they need immunity, because they were just being good citizens, and that they were not clear on the law. <\/p>\n

There is one problem with argument, as Mr. Klein noted on Olbermann, THESE ENTITIES WROTE THE LAWS INVOLVED<\/span>. They were heavily involved in drafting the laws at every step of the way.<\/p>\n

They knowingly broke the laws, and they did because they saw the example of Qwest, where the government retaliated by denying and pulling contracts, and they chose<\/span> to break the law because it was profitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Klein is an American hero. For those of you who don’t know, Mark Klein is a retired technician at AT&T, and he was responsible for running wires to a splitter for the benefit of Room 641A of 611 Folsom Street, the secret room set up by the NSA at AT&T’s offices in San Francisco. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1067,998,1052,1102,997,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-communications","category-congress","category-crimes","category-intelligence","category-internet","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}