So what happened in this room – well actually a huge amount of the worlds Internet traffic passed through here. This room was a window into part of the backbone of the Internet, it was a major switching centre which carried a lot of the nets traffic. But in truth the traffic shouldn’t have come through this room, it did because engineers working for the NSA had secretly (and illegally) split the Internet feed and had a copy routed through this room.

It’s called covert surveillance I guess, but they were spying on you, me and anyone else whose traffic went through this site. The only reason we even know about this was a brave Telecoms engineer called Mark Klein, the NSA and US Government had no plans to let us know. So this in part is one of the reasons I use anonymous surfing techniques, I know I’ll upset the NSA but frankly until they start behaving within the law I really don’t care.