Brooklyn Gallery Owner Builds NSA Listening Towerk. The patriotic director of a Brooklyn art gallery is building a 10-foot-tall cell tower to help the NSA and other spooks spy on his neighbors' communications without having to obtain a pesky warrant or place phone companies and ISPs in legal jeopardy.
David Kesting, director of the Capla Kesting Fine Art gallery, says the tower, when completed this week, will capture, amplify and rebroadcast signals up to half a mile away using high-gain antennas and a satelite dish. This will help authorities monitor the phone and e-mail traffic of all his neighbors by allowing them to simply pick up the communications surreptitiously from the street without having to worry about being caught up in class-action lawsuits brought against telcos for violating their customers' privacy. more... http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/09/brooklyn-galler.html _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
