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

Posted by Cory Doctorow, August 22, 2008 7:29 PM | permalink

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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#1 posted by minTphresh , August 22, 2008 8:00 PM

badass cartoonist+mexican ska=WIN!

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#2 posted by Foolster41

, August 22, 2008 8:25 PM

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.

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#3 posted by John Hell , August 22, 2008 9:09 PM

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

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#4 posted by Anonymous , August 22, 2008 11:14 PM

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

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#5 posted by Phikus , August 22, 2008 11:37 PM

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

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#6 posted by doublethink , August 23, 2008 12:54 AM

Is the music Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
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#7 posted by VICTOR JIMENEZ , August 23, 2008 6:22 AM

Brilliant! Both video, cartoon and ska!

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#8 posted by eustace , August 23, 2008 9:10 AM

Beautiful baby! And we all take turns feeding it...

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#9 posted by jjjj , August 23, 2008 11:19 AM

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

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#10 posted by ldavis650 , August 23, 2008 1:19 PM

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.

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."

-- Gerald Ford, Presidential address to a joint session of Congress (12 August 1974)

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#11 posted by 100kjob , August 24, 2008 4:49 AM

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.

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#12 posted by FoetusNail , August 24, 2008 5:32 AM

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.