Cartoon depicts what went on in the NSA's wiretapping room at AT&T

Electronic Frontier Foundation designer Hugh D'Andrade sez, "I did a 'live-painting' last Friday at a gallery -- a mural-sized cartoon depicting the goings-on inside the "secret room" at AT&T's Folsom Street facility. My EFF co-workers created a time-lapse video with an awesome ska soundtrack!" The Secret Room: EFF Designer's Cartoon on Illegal Spying (Thanks, Hugh!)

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minTphresh

badass cartoonist+mexican ska=WIN!
Foolster41

cool cartoon, and good soundtrack, though I was mostly thinking through the entire video. “Come on, I want to see the cartoon.”, not that the process wasn’t cool. I’m kind of impatient like that though.
John Hell

Dang Hugh, I had no idea you were so talented. Very cool. When do you want to come do that to my classroom?
Anonymous

Mexican ska? Sounds French to me, and their website has a .fr domain. Definitely a cool ska group.
Phikus

Nice message. Nice execution. Murals like this should be outside and accessible, additionally.
100kjob

How amazing! I like the way he drew up the baby: right hand first, then right foot, left foot, left hand with bottle, after all these, the head and shoulder. A chubby little baby with a big burpp.
doublethink

Is the music Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
?
FoetusNail

Loved the performance. LDAVIS650 – That facility better be secure. Imagine the havoc the bad guys could create if they broke in to that tap undetected. This is a movie plot component. I know the bad guys are already there, but what if the other bad guys broke in?

PS – great quote, thanks.
VICTOR JIMENEZ

Brilliant! Both video, cartoon and ska!
eustace

Beautiful baby! And we all take turns feeding it…
jjjj

Now ATT will be happy to come to your house to help you install your internet services. I wonder what else they will “install.”
ldavis650

I work across the street from the AT&T facility at Folsom & Second Street. The facility looks like the entry to a high-security federal government building and not a communications complex at all. Cameras surround the building and the entrance looks like something you would expect when entering a maximum security prison or the Federal reserve.

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