Room 641A: The Secret NSA Wiretap AT&T Hid in San Francisco
Room 641A is an AT&T facility in San Francisco used by the NSA for mass surveillance. It began operations in 2003 and was exposed by AT&T technician Mark Klein in 2006. The room contained a Narus STA 6400 to intercept Internet traffic. The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued AT&T, but the case was dismissed after Congress granted retroactive immunity to telecom companies.
The room was referred to in internal AT&T documents as the SG3 [Study Group 3] Secure Room.
- tedd4u
Covered many times before.
How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] (https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-whistleblower-who-unc...)
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- godwinson__4-8
> On August 15, 2007, the case was heard by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and was dismissed on December 29, 2011, based on a retroactive grant of immunity by Congress for telecommunications companies that cooperated with the government. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case.
"Retroactive grant of immunity" is a nice reminder that the law is ultimately about power.
Amass enough power and the law is yours.
- Charly_HW
9/11 was the starting point for profiting from many places, but mainly for keeping Americans afraid and prompting them to turn against people from outside the country to justify military spending.
- Cider9986
9/11 was used as an excuse to create more mass spying on Americans even though 2,977 people died while 42,116 died from car accidents that same year.
- nzoschke
Crazy I just walked by this building last night and discussed how ominous it looks with a friend