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The Wiretap Rooms: The NSA's Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities
The secrets are hidden behind fortified walls in cities across the United States, inside towering, windowless skyscrapers and fortress-like concrete structures that were built to withstand earthquakes and even nuclear attack. Thousands of people pass by the buildings each day and rarely give them a second glance, because their function is not publicly known. They are an integral part of one of the world's largest telecommunications networks – and they are also linked to a controversial National Security Agency surveillance program.
Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. In each of these cities, The Intercept has identified an AT&T facility containing networking equipment that transports large quantities of internet traffic across the United States and the world. A body of evidence – including classified NSA documents, public records, and interviews with several former AT&T employees – indicates that the buildings are central to an NSA spying initiative that has for years monitored billions of emails, phone calls, and online chats passing across U.S. territory.
The NSA considers AT&T to be one of its most trusted partners and has lauded the company's "extreme willingness to help." It is a collaboration that dates back decades.
(Score: 3, Disagree) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday June 26 2018, @01:29PM (3 children)
The British did not tell even the US that they'd cracked the Enigma until the War was over; even then Turing delivered the news in person
During a visit to Bell Labs Turing and Shannon collaborated on a secure voice channel between President Roosevelt and Winston Curchill.
That leads me to advance the hypothesis that the close links between at&t and the NSA commenced before the NSA was formally established
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @02:36PM (1 child)
"From 1943 onwards, an improved version of the British BOMBE was built in the US by the US Navy and - separately - by the US Army." (source [cryptomuseum.com])
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday June 26 2018, @03:07PM
My source was the book "Alan Turing: The Enigma". It definitely said that Britain did not at first tell us about the Enigma but I readily admit that I don't recall when Turing visited the US.
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday June 26 2018, @06:06PM
As soon as there were enough phones to worry that the commies would use them to spy ...