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"textContent": "On the sixth floor of an AT&T building on Folsom Street in San Francisco, a locked room labeled 641A held the hardware that gave the NSA a copy of every byte of internet traffic passing through. The man who figured this out was a retired AT&T technician named Mark Klein, and in January 2006 he walked into the lobby of the Electronic Frontier Foundation a few blocks away and started talking. — Read the rest \n\nThe post How a retired technician handed EFF the proof of NSA mass spying appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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