it's about time i posted something humorous. now THIS is funny

it's rather like if you closed your eyes the monster will go away. nope, not this time big boys. WE ALREADY KNOW about it. so now what? we can't blog about it either? shhhhhhhh it's a BIG FAT SECRET.

at&t bought out my phone company (my company has been through a MILLION incarnations. it is still known as sbc and cingular BUT the at&t logo now appears on the paperwork). i have them by default.

AT&T asks judge to order documents alleging wiretaps returned

By Elise Ackerman
Mercury News
Attorneys for AT&T have asked a federal judge to order a San Francisco civil liberties group to return ``highly confidential'' documents that allegedly show that the telecommunications giant provided detailed records of millions of its customers to a government intelligence agency.
In documents filed on Monday, AT&T's attorneys also asked Judge Vaughn Walker to order the Electronic Frontier Foundation to refrain from referencing the documents in its lawsuit.
The EFF filed a lawsuit against AT&T in January alleging that AT&T had collaborated with the National Security Agency in a ``massive and illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans' communications.''
Last week, the group filed additional documents to the federal court in San Francisco totaling more than 140 pages. The documents purportedly provide evidence of the technology that AT&T had used to conduct surveillance for the NSA.
The documents, which included a sworn declaration from retired AT&T technician Mark Klein and confidential company documents, were voluntarily placed under seal by the group pending a decision by the judge to make them public.
However, Klein subsequently provided a statement to Wired News that described how he had met an agent from the National Security Agency in 2002. Klein said he was told the agent had come to interview a management-level technician ``for a special job.''......