...Klein describes how he stumbled across "secret NSA rooms" being installed at an AT&T switching center in San Francisco and later heard of similar rooms in at least six other cities, including Atlanta, San Diego, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, San Jose and Seattle.
"You needed an ordinary key and the code to punch into a key pad on the door, and the only person who had both of those things was the one guy cleared by the NSA," Klein says of the "secret room" at the AT&T center in San Francisco.
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Klein says he collected 120 pages of technical documents left around the San Francisco office showing how the NSA was installing "splitters" that would allow it to copy both domestic and international Internet traffic moving through AT&T connections with 16 other trunk lines.
"It's gobs and gobs of information going across the Internet," Klein says.
Weee!
What's wrong with this?
The USG is collecting soooo much data, it would be impossible for a human (even several humans) to sift through it all. That means the NSA employs an algorithm, a sort of computer program, to sift through all the information. The only problem with this is that this algorithm is programmed by a human. Humans are flawed--we make mistakes all of the time. Especially, the humans who run the Bush Administration. I think we can all agree that they mess up all the time (either that or they're truly corrupt, amoral people--but that's a post for another time).
So, what if you're on the Internet, looking up some information on "bomb making" because you're writing a book about it, or perhaps you're just curious how easy it is for terrorists to build those IEDs in Iraq.
Well, you could easily be targeted by the NSA as a possible domestic terror threat. You could get arrested and detained indefinitely as an enemy combatant. That would make "being curious" about something like "explosives" a pretty dangerous thing to be curious about, wouldn't it? You being arrested would discourage other folks for being curious about things and, essentially, it would mean certain types of knowledge are effectively outlawed.
Think about that for a moment--certain knowledge is outlawed.
But what if you had a much better reason to look information like that up? What if you caught your kid making a chlorine bomb in your back yard one day? You don't want him to make another, so you clear out everything in the house that he could use to make another one. But how do you know what ingredients he used? Surely it takes more than chlorine to make a bomb, so you start googling. You find a whole mess of "chlorine bomb" videos on the YouTube. You also find, in these videos, instructions on how to make said "chlorine bombs". But, thanks to these rooms at ISPs around the country, the USG now knows you're researching both "bomb making" and "chlorine bombs."
GOSHES, it's like a bad Jeff Foxworthy sketch!
"If you google for both 'bomb making' AND 'chlorine bombs', you might be a domestic terrorist!"
On the other hand, you might not be.
In fact, statistics show that the majority of humans on the planet are NOT terrorists--even ones that look up information on "bomb making"!
It's true!
However, thanks to this absurd paranoia that terrorism is a threat to the American way of life (it really isn't), we have equipment and software at offices of Internet providers around the nation that are watching our every Internet move. The bad news is that thanks to those new powers the Bush Administration got from Congress the other day (http://thepete.com/did-i-mention-that-bush-is-legally-lawless/), all of this is legal.
In fact, after all the uses of bomb-related keywords in this here post, the government DEFINITELY knows you're reading this blog.
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