23.07.2013 - 09:30 [ BuzzFeed ]

“What Is That Box?” — When The NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company

They wanted to come in and put in equipment on my network to monitor a single customer. The customer they were monitoring was a particular website that was very benign. It seems ridiculous to me. It was beyond absurd. It wasn’t like a guns and ammo website. (…)

[What we ended up with was] a little box in our systems room that was capturing all the traffic to this customer. Everything they were sending and receiving.