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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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @07:10PM
I remember a documentary about the crisis in Iceland. Someone told something like this:
"The lawyers, economists etc of a corporation go to a high government servant and try to convince him of passing a bill against people interests or some other absolutely unacceptable action. They are four, or five, or seven high rank men pushing a single man and usually they succeed. But if they don't, they haven't wasted their time, if the civil servant has shown that he is intelligent, defenses with good arguments... then they hire him for fifty fold what he earns. They want the best ones in their crew".
No, government doesn't have the resources, corporation. have. The reason why corporations and government work together is not because government is bad, but because corporations own the government. They have had the resources to buy it more or less. Corporations are so close in resources to government, that both think better collaboration than war.