EFF vs. AT&T/Room 641A

I generally wobble between pissed and funny. Well I hope I'm funny. But I don't want to be funny. I absolutely want to ride a giant. I want to thank WIRED Magazine, and as always, the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Juevos mas grande. Everybody on the internet (myself included) have at least partially ranted about the NSA program to log every phonecall we make in America, not from terrorist to terrorist, but from you to your mom. Fine, you say. You are admittedly pretty dodgy. But what about your mom to her mom, calling to discuss an important apple pie recipe revision? Well that's a foul.

So last week AT&T and Los Federales, in the middle of the night, had the evidence of this program squelched in order to obliterate a legitimate lawsuit. The response came from WIRED. Last night, around 2AM, they published all the documents AT&T and the NSA wanted locked away. HERE IS THE LINK. Don't just click on it. Honestly, it's boring, boring stuff. Combining legalese with techno-babble. It's a tough read. But wooooweeeee, look at all the corporate logos. It's nothing short of a NASCAR fender, except this is America's formerly best, brightest and smartest using their churchkey to punch crude triangle holes in my 64oz. can of Citrus Cooler HI-C business. Please, please, "SAVE LINK AS." It's not going to be immediately disappeared. WIRED isn't some blog. But somehow we will be made to forget. This 2MB .pdf is an immediate collector's item.

Now I like to joke that nobody reads this, and comparatively, nobody does. It's in the hundreds. And we're probably a little hipper than the average bear. That said, we still need to help the EFF. Swear to god, I just joined! I'm a pioneer, motherfuckers! Your turn.



I wish this was the link that had the AT&T log morphed into the Deathstar. But I guess that's the least of our problems.