AT&T Pushing Home Security Service Into 8 Markets

I wonder if they'll turn off the security system when the cops ask to search your house without a warrant.

Better yet,

I wonder if you have any video surveillance systems setup, do they capture the feed and store it along with your internet traffic? Shivers.

I think yous guys nailed it. Att isn't trust worthy enough, no one that works there is.

I wouldn't trust AT&T with any personal security, period.

They have been spying on Americans for years. There was a big story a while back a while ago where AT&T was filtering every piece of data that came into the US thru a facility somewhere in CA. then it was fed in to NSA computers. an engineer who worked for AT&T at the time revealed this.. I'm sure if you google, you'll locate that exact article.

NO WAY!

Yup, I easily traced this article down. Room 641A is located in the SBC Communications building at 611 Folsom Street, San Francisco....

It is fed by fiber optic lines from beam splitters installed in fiber optic trunks carrying Internet backbone traffic and has the capability to enable surveillance and analysis of internet content on a massive scale, including both overseas and purely domestic traffic.

The room measures about 24 by 48 feet and contains several racks of equipment, including a Narus STA 6400, a device designed to intercept and analyze Internet communications at very high speeds.

The very existence of the room was revealed by a former AT&T technician, Mark Klein.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T on January 31, accusing the telecommunication company of violating the law and the privacy of its customers by collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in a massive, illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans' communications.

There was a very interesting article on PBS back a while ago, but I can't find it on the site.....

Looks like another room in Missouri. As many as 10 in the US

The disclosure of the room in Bridgeton follows assertions made earlier this year by a former AT&T worker in California, Mark Klein, who revealed that the company had installed a secret room in a San Francisco facility and reconfigured its circuits, allegedly to help collect data for use by the government. In detailed documents he provided to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Klein also alleged there were other secret rooms at AT&T facilities in other U.S. cities.

BIG BROTHER (AT&T) is still watching you!

This is room AT&T Room 641A when Klein first noticed it. It was previously vacant, then wires were suddenly being routed this room, split from other servers. Klein then noticed blueprints referencing the Narus_STA_6400 installed off a splitter. then, the next week, a NSA agent shows up wanting access to the room.......Sneaky, eh?

"Most of these carriers refuse to divulge sales numbers for these services, which speaks volumes."

I don't understand what that statement means in the context of this article. The rest of the paragraph might imply they're selling well but I don't understand why not divulging numbers means anything in particular.

Gotta preserve that monitoring capacity ya know...

Meanwhile another mole snapped a pick of AT&T and NSA workers doing their thing.

Absolutely. With data overage charges to boot!!!!!

implying they are not selling any of these system which is why they wouldnt say the numbers.

At least the room is wheelchair accessible. Our government doesn't have to follow the 4th amendment of the constitution, but the ADA compliance is iron clad.

I don't like this at all because then at&t and the nsa will get to what you do every day even the questionable things

AT&T got into a HUGE lawsuit over this.. Not sure these "spy rooms" on AT&T property even still operate.....

The CREEPY thing is, they did it underhanded and got caught.
I wouldn't want them monitoring my home that had surveillance cameras actually for security, or remote audio monitoring, or even having them access to arm/disarm my home. Snoop once, Snoop again. AT&T shouldn't be trusted for anything after that, especially something "SECURE".......

AT&T gave warrantless access to the NSA their vast trove of domestic and international billing records, detailed information about who called whom in the US and around the world. As of 2009, AT&T had more than 2.8 trillion records housed in a database at its Florham Park, New Jersey, complex..... AH, another SPY room?????

The NSA center got their own snoop facility now out in the desert in Bluffdale, UTAH, so they're probably not having to rely on "secret AT&T snoop rooms" anymore....

The biggest-ever data complex, to be completed in Utah, may take American citizens into a completely new reality where their emails, phone calls, online shopping lists and virtually entire lives will be stored and reviewed.

The National Security Agency's immensely secret project in the Utah desert will intercept, analyze, and store yottabytes of the world's communications.

What the heck is a yottabyte??????? so much for AT&T keeping 2.8 trillion records, eh?????

I think this facility actually replaced the AT&T Secret Spy Rooms....

My alarm system costs $25 per month and it uses a phone line to dial in. Since I have a home phone as part of my Comcast bundle, I'll stick with my local security provider.

Available to Atlanta AT&T employees this month, I signed up & the install was done this weekend. Security-wise, I like the fact that it uses both my broadband connection and a wireless backup in case your wired connection is cut/bypassed by would-be thieves. So far, it works as advertised.