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Does Room 614A have any relationship to Room 641A?

Back in 2003, the NSA started a project called “Room 641A” at one of AT&T’s headquarters in San Francisco at the time, where the agency would tap into AT&T’s internet cables in order to siphon everyone’s unencrypted web traffic data and communications.

An AT&T technician discovered what was happening in that room and came forward in 2007 with this information, after the New York Times presented information about related and illegal mass surveillance operations authorized by President Bush, in 2005.

As a response to all of these revelations, Congress passed FISA in 2008 not to punish the NSA or AT&T for their illegal activities, but to grant all carriers that may have aided the NSA in such operations retroactive immunity against lawsuits.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/att-8-nsa-spy-fortresses,37353.html

3 years ago
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Does Room 614A have any relationship to Room 641A?

Back in 2003, the NSA started a project called “Room 641A” at one of AT&T’s headquarters in San Francisco at the time, where the agency would tap into AT&T’s internet cables in order to siphon everyone’s unencrypted web traffic data and communications.

An AT&T technician discovered what was happening in that room and came forward in 2007 with this information, after the New York Times presented information about related and illegal mass surveillance operations authorized by President Bush, in 2005.

As a response to all of these revelations, Congress passed FISA in 2008 not to punish the NSA or AT&T for their illegal activities, but to grant all carriers that may have aided the NSA in such operations retroactive immunity against lawsuits.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/att-8-nsa-spy-fortresses,37353.html

3 years ago
1 score