Big Brother Actually is Watching You (or at least reading)
I just came across this in Wired News online. An affidavit in support of the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s lawsuit against At&T details the existence of a setup in the Worldnet headquarters that allows the NSA to grab data off the fiber optic lines that carry a huge percentage of the country’s internet traffic. Specifically, Mark Klein, the retired engineer who gave the affidavit says that “it appears the NSA is capable of conducting what amounts to vacuum-cleaner surveillance of all the data crossing the internet — whether that be peoples’ e-mail, web surfing or any other data.” See the full story in Wired Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room as well as a complete copy of the affidavit.
I often see the bumper sticker “Freedom isn’t free”. I guess it turns out that the price of freedom is surveillance of all your communication. Land of the wiretapped, home of the scared!
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