(Courtesy of T. Harris who states: "Pay close attention at how the machine is going to be upgraded in the not so distant future >?!!! I have contacted all the media outlets that I know of, but there is nothing. I have emailed my senator and there is nothing. I want to arrange a protest in every major city about this. So I am telling all of you. I am thinking that if the media is going to cover this issue, which they are obviously being censored on, then there must be protests at a nation wide level. Pass it on to your friends and email me if you are interested.
The fact that AT&T and the NSA has been monitoring all information is frightening. What is more frightening is the fact that this has been a news item for nearly a week and a half and has not covered by one large media outlet. PERIOD. What does that tell you about your media ?")
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Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room
by Ryan Singel
Wired
AT&T provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers' phone calls, and shunted its customers' internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching center, according to a former AT&T worker cooperating in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit against the company.
Mark Klein, a retired AT&T communications technician, submitted an affidavit in support of the EFF's lawsuit this week. That class action lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco last January, alleges that AT&T violated federal and state laws by surreptitiously allowing the government to monitor phone and internet communications of AT&T customers without warrants.
On Wednesday, the EFF asked the court to issue an injunction prohibiting AT&T from continuing the alleged wiretapping, and filed a number of documents under seal, including three AT&T documents that purportedly explain how the wiretapping system works.
According to a statement released by Klein's attorney, an NSA agent showed up at the San Francisco switching center in 2002 to interview a management-level technician for a special job. In January 2003, Klein observed a new room being built adjacent to the room housing AT&T's #4ESS switching equipment, which is responsible for routing long distance and international calls.
"I learned that the person whom the NSA interviewed for the secret job was the person working to install equipment in this room," Klein wrote. "The regular technician work force was not allowed in the room."
Klein's job eventually included connecting internet circuits to a splitting cabinet that led to the secret room. During the course of that work, he learned from a co-worker that similar cabinets were being installed in other cities, including Seattle, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego.
"While doing my job, I learned that fiber optic cables from the secret room were tapping into the Worldnet (AT&T's internet service) circuits by splitting off a portion of the light signal," Klein wrote.
The split circuits included traffic from peering links connecting to other internet backbone providers, meaning that AT&T was also diverting traffic routed from its network to or from other domestic and international providers, according to Klein's statement.
To Read the Entire Hyperlinked Report
Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF Class Action Lawsuit Against AT & T for Collaboration with Illegal Domestic Spying Program
Also reported by Bewert at Daily Kos:
All About NSA's and AT&T's Big Brother Machine, the Narus 6400
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