AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale

[BoberFett]

*crying*

Awwww, Steamer doesn't like it when people see through his BS.

 

[hal2kilo]

This setup between AT&T and NSA is/was very well known in the telephony and telecommunications industry. I knew about this in the mid-00's. Worked down the street from a huge AT&T site in Cambridge MA. So old news for me.

Maybe the millennials have the right attitude. They expect no privacy, and have learned to live and thrive with it. Its only us Boomers that are disillusioned.

Yea, this is old news, AT&T basically routed the light pipe in San Fran through an NSA server.

But Obama's Hiltler compared to Bush.

 

[Nebor]

This setup between AT&T and NSA is/was very well known in the telephony and telecommunications industry. I knew about this in the mid-00's. Worked down the street from a huge AT&T site in Cambridge MA. So old news for me.

Maybe the millennials have the right attitude. They expect no privacy, and have learned to live and thrive with it. Its only us Boomers that are disillusioned.

This. I don't believe privacy is even possible in the modern, Western world. For the vast majority of people privacy isn't a necessity. Not having it has no real impact on their lives. For a few, their behavior will be altered or policed as a result of the lack of privacy (ie: they won't engage in socially unacceptable behavior because everyone would know.)

Before I had an iPhone I didn't even lock my phone. Want to look at my text messages, google search history, browser history, photos, etc? Go nuts.

I knew after seeing the collection assets used in an austere combat environment that every email, phone call & text message back in the US was being collected. If you can do it in a warzone, you've already perfected it at home. It doesn't bother me one iota. You just have to trust the government to do the right thing with your information.

 

[Ketchup]

Ok sm625, I read your post and had to laugh at the one word you decided to bleep out the end.

 

[Newell Steamer]

Awwww, Steamer doesn't like it when people see through his BS.

Awwww, BoberFett can't come up with anything counter to my posts other than just flipping/spinning the point.

 

[Ketchup]

This. I don't believe privacy is even possible in the modern, Western world. For the vast majority of people privacy isn't a necessity. Not having it has no real impact on their lives.....

I would probably be better off this way, to a degree. In 2012 a hacker got 75% of South Carolina social security numbers. The state gave us all identity protection, but that doesn't do a darn thing.

My point? I could do absolutely nothing about this, even if I was as "off the radar" as I could be. Just like AT&T could look at every email I send, and there isn't anything I could do about that either.

 

[Genx87]

Clapper still have a job? Good to know liars are held accountable.