Wired Magazine has released the Klein documents from the EFF lawsuit in San Francisco. The EFF and other organizations have sought to make these documents public, but AT&T claims the information is propietary and must be held under a gag order by the court. The court has issued a gag order over all of the participants in the case, but this order does not cover Wired. They have since filed an amicus brief in the case asking to be allowed to compare their copy with the filing from the case. Wired only published the documents after their in-house lawyer told them they were okay.
Inside is some technical stuff about the AT&T switches (I don't know much about this stuff-any Kossacks mess with phone switching stuff) and some stuff about Narus equipment (which is packet analyzing stuff--again I don't know much). There's also pictures of the "secret room" that anyone's who has read about Klein's account has heard about. If you're interested in this stuff, give it a look.
If you're a technical guy and have better knowledge of this stuff, leave a comment or--better yet, leave another diary explaining it.
Here's the docs:
http://blog.wired.com/...
and here's Wired's article:
http://www.wired.com/...
UPDATE:
A little more on Narus equipment. Narus makes packet analyzing products that do pretty much the kind of traffic analysis we've all heard of. This little room sounds more and more like a place where the NSA has been doing the kind of "Total/Terrorism Information Awareness" type thing they were prohibited from doing by congress. Not exactly surprising, but disturbing nonetheless. Really, this whole program seems like a focus-grouped re-imagining of that idea. The strange thing is that no one is drawing that parallel in the media. Exactly the same type of data mining operation--except it doesn't overtly include purchase information (though now it's possible that's included, if these documents are correct). For more on this topic, see the excellent diary by bewert about Narus equipment:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/8/14724/28476