Big Brother is Listening

Here's your creepy story of the week: "AT&T engineer: NSA built secret rooms in our facilities." Read it and be afraid: "...this room contained (among other things) a [traffic analyzer] into which all of AT&T's Internet and phone traffic was routed... In addition to AT&T's own traffic, [a techie with AT&T] alleges that the company also routed its peering links into the splitter, meaning that any traffic that passed through AT&T's own network could be scanned. Futhermore, San Francisco wasn't the only place such secret rooms were built; [he] claims that AT&T offices in Seattle, San Jose, Los Angeles, and San Diego also have them." More in-depth NSA tapping information can be found at The Atlantic Online.