AT&T helped U.S. NSA in spying on Internet traffic: N.Y. Times

[cantbeserious]

http://news.yahoo.com/t-helped-u-nsa-spying-internet-traffic-n-184334638--finance.html

Telecommunications powerhouse AT&T Inc has provided extensive assistance to the U.S. National Security Agency as the spy agency conducts surveillance on huge volumes of Internet traffic passing through the United States, the New York Times reported on Saturday, citing newly disclosed NSA documents.

The newspaper reported that the company gave technical assistance to the NSA in carrying out a secret court order allowing wiretapping of all Internet communications at the headquarters of the United Nations, an AT&T customer.

The documents date from 2003 to 2013 and were provided by fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the Times reported.

The company helped the spy agency in a broad range of classified activities, the newspaper reported.

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[GoneFishin]

1. Of course. And then Senator Barack Obama voted to provide retroactive immunity to AT&T

for their law breaking. Then everyone at Barack Obama's campaign festivities were walking around with AT&T carry bags. And that tune has not stopped playing for 7 years now.

[cantbeserious]

3. Yes - Hope And Change Not - More Like - Duplicity And Deceit

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[cstanleytech]

5. Ya they broke it though it was at the behest of the government thus they were granted immunity.

The ones who should be held legally accountable though are the ones in the government who ordered this done in the first place, they should have been arrested and charged.

[Gman]

7. We got net neutrality

Which ATT was terribly against.

[GoneFishin]

9. They only have to kill it once. We have to sustain it against every assault. They are already filing

lawsuits now. No doubt they are weaving special booby traps into TPP to challenge it also.

[Shandris]

2. People like to be spied on.

If they didn't, AT&T would die as a company tonight simply by having no remaining customers and no money coming in from bill payments.

[cantbeserious]

4. Sad - But Possibly True - Commentary On Society

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[Hydra]

6. A lot of the telecoms fought this, but AT&T has always been helpful to the people spying on us

It's the American Way(tm) dontcha know!

[hedda_foil]

8. Um... Haven't we been aware of this for the past ten years?

Remember the ATT tech guy who reported that all the traffic going through their system was duplicated in an adjoining room for the NSA?