7 stories tagged att, newest first.
40 points by spectraldrift | 7 comments
Blog post recounting how a 1991 power failure at AT&T's 33 Thomas Street facility in Manhattan knocked out FAA air traffic control links, disrupting 1,174 flights.
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664 points by the-mitr | 224 comments
MIT Press Reader book excerpt recounting how whistleblower Mark Klein gave the EFF evidence of the NSA's secret AT&T wiretapping facility, Room 641A.
392 points by rntn | 321 comments
The Register article reporting that AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen confirmed Salt Typhoon breaches by Chinese state-backed hackers, with White House comments.
1006 points by impish9208 | 797 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that AT&T says criminals stole calling and text records and location-related data for nearly all of its customers.
459 points by rooooob | 438 comments
CNBC/Reuters news article reporting a February 2024 U.S. cellular network outage affecting thousands of AT&T users, with reports for other carriers.
400 points by LinuxBender | 119 comments
The Register article on Senator Ron Wyden's letter questioning the Hemisphere Project, under which the US government pays AT&T to let police search phone records, often without warrants.
537 points by acaloiar | 269 comments
Blog post by Adriano Caloiaro describing how AT&T Wireless traffic shaping appears to make some websites unusable, observed while living in an RV.