NSA SWEEPS UP EVERYTHING ON THE NET

Mark Klein, a retired AT&T internet technician, has provided documents that seem to show that the NSA has been splitting off the signals from the entire Internet, to what end we do not know. This has gotten a fair amount of coverage: Spencer Ackerman at TPM Muckraker, the WaPo, the NYT and Wired. You can see the documents Klein provided here or here.

From his docs, I found this especially troubling because it reveals the vast scope of this operation:

One page lists the circuit IDs of key Peering Links which were "cut-in" in February 2003, including ConXion, Verio, XO, Genuity, Qwest, PAIX, Allegiance, AboveNet, Global Crossing, C&W, UUNET, Level 3, Sprint, Telia, PSINet and Mae West. By the way, Mae West is one of two key internet nodal points in the United States (the other, Mae East, is in Vienna, Virginia). It's not just WorldNet customers who are being spied on -- it's the entire internet.