Lawyers for AT&T accidentally released sensitive information while defending a lawsuit that accuses the company of facilitating a government wiretapping program here (click for PDF).
It appears a concerted attempt has been made in court to compare the software and hardware used in the room with that of similar set-ups for anti-virus and hacker detection operations.
So much for the public denials of active and knowingly participation in illegal NSA spying activities. They are busy spinning it right now in court, just not out in the open in the "court of public opinion".
The deleted portions of the legal brief seek to offer benign reasons why AT&T would allegedly have a secret room at its downtown San Francisco switching center that would be designed to monitor Internet and telephone traffic. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which filed the class-action lawsuit in January, alleges that the room is used by an unlawful National Security Agency surveillance program.
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