Wired News has an interesting interview with Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician, that details how his company spied on American citizens for the National Security Agency (NSA). Basically, technicians split fibre optic cable and re-routed copies of the Internet traffic to a secret room where it could be monitored (read the full interview here).
Klein says that “[t]hey have embedded spying into the infrastructure of the internet. I’m not sure people are fully conscious of what is going on, and I want it exposed and stopped.” Klein says that he won’t be satisfied until he can revisit the site and see that everything from this secret internet-monitoring room has been dismantled. The real question is how many of these types of rooms are out there? AT&T or otherwise.
