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Reach Out and Tap Someone

Julian Sanchez | 4.14.2006 4:04 PM


Wired reports that AT&T is suing for the return of recently-leaked internal documents detailing how the telecom giant built a special spy-room for the National Security Agency, which sounds as though it housed some kind of ECHELON-style data-mining vacuum-cleaner techonlogy that sifted though large volumes of signals looking for suspicious content.

Julian Sanchez is a contributing editor at Reason.