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#2Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/_NSAKEY
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#3Similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF4EUM8CwT4 "The Secret Behind the Huge, Windowless Skyscraper in NYC" by Half as Interesting
And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21555954
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#4Similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF4EUM8CwT4 "The Secret Behind the Huge, Windowless Skyscraper in NYC" by Half as Interesting And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21555954
The reason it doesn't have windows it because it's a telephone exchange. These are, almost universally, windowless shacks in the US. The cloak and dagger bits are just because it's in a convenient location for spying.
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#5The thin blue line runs around the world. NSA is party to multinational intelligence sharing agreements. If they don’t delete the data to prevent discovery and disclosure in public trials, they are in violation of the contract. Any legal scholars have a rejoinder to this? How would you have approached this case to prevent outmaneuvering in these legalistic ways? It is a mockery of the rule of law that it is upheld and twisted in this way for some agreements but not in favor of the Constitution.
From linked article on Jewel v. NSA[1]:
On March 10, 2014, Judge White imposed a temporary restraining order, requiring the NSA and other parties to halt the destruction of evidence until a final resolution of the case. On June 5, 2014, the EFF filed a motion for an emergency hearing requesting that the court enforce this temporary restraining order after discovering that the government had continued the destruction of evidence. A motion filed by the government claimed that doing so would have severe consequences "including the possible suspension of the Section 702 program and potential loss of access to lawfully collected signals intelligence information on foreign intelligence targets".[2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_v._NSA
[2] https://www.eff.org/files/2014/06/05/govtemergencymotion.pdf
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#6Similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF4EUM8CwT4 "The Secret Behind the Huge, Windowless Skyscraper in NYC" by Half as Interesting And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21555954
Is it a known fact that AT&T is in bed with the NSA, or just a coincidence? Titanpointe and Room 641A are currently or formerly owned by AT&T.
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#7Similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF4EUM8CwT4 "The Secret Behind the Huge, Windowless Skyscraper in NYC" by Half as Interesting And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21555954
The reason it doesn't have windows it because it's a telephone exchange. These are, almost universally, windowless shacks in the US. The cloak and dagger bits are just because it's in a convenient location for spying.
Telephone exchanges especially big ones are built for resilience and high security
A few years ago I had to do an update to some of our sun servers in CAPITAL (the really big international Exchange in Edinburgh) interesting experience cavernous rooms and quite spooky with all the various clicks and bleeps
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#8What kind of data do they have access to, now that most internet traffic is encrypted?
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#9Similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF4EUM8CwT4 "The Secret Behind the Huge, Windowless Skyscraper in NYC" by Half as Interesting And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21555954
Is it a known fact that AT&T is in bed with the NSA, or just a coincidence? Titanpointe and Room 641A are currently or formerly owned by AT&T.
All PTT's and ex PTT's do its just how that industry is.
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#10Mark Klein, the whistleblower for all of this, wrote a great book on his experience that I highly recommend: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6625940-wiring-up-the-bi...