Re: [privacy] Former AT&T Employees: NSA had 'Secret Room' in St. Louis Data Center

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

shhhhhh, Fergie!

What are you trying to do, help the terrorists?


You suck dude, you just f*#ked up our whole anti-terrorist strategy, way to go.

Well we do have another one, that apparently involves quitting the DHS
and working for lobbyists, but thats even more vital to natl. security
than not suing at&t is.

-JP



On 6/20/06, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> Via Salon.com.
>
> [snip]
>
> In a pivotal network operations center in metropolitan St. Louis, AT&T
> has maintained a secret, highly secured room since 2002 where
> government work is being conducted, according to two former AT&T
> workers once employed at the center.
>
> In interviews with Salon, the former AT&T workers said that only
> government officials or AT&T employees with top-secret security
> clearance are admitted to the room, located inside AT&T's facility in
> Bridgeton. The room's tight security includes a biometric "mantrap" or
> highly sophisticated double door, secured with retinal and fingerprint
> scanners.
>
> The former workers say company supervisors told them that employees
> working inside the room were "monitoring network traffic" and that the
> room was being used by "a government agency."
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/06/21/att_nsa/index_np.html
>
> - ferg
>
>
> --
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>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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