anyone remember Room 641A ?

"Room 641A is a telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security Agency that commenced operations in 2003 and was exposed in 2006"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

its been pretty much out in the open for the last 20 years, across a lot of countries, except that noone saw or wanted to see the true scale of the operation

http://www.wired.com/...veries/news/2006/05/70908

http://www.wired.com/...03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1

for anyone that wants to learn from a TV programme a long time before current news

http://www.pbs.org/...ages/frontline/homefront/

"The NSA's Eavesdropping at AT&T" is well worth seeing as an intro to the subject