AT&T ad 'improved' to reflect ties to NSA

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The Billboard Liberation Front has hijacked this AT&T billboard in the San Francisco area, following the recent revelations that AT&T has been handing over consumer voice and data information to the National Security Agency. BLF’s humorous press release contains a mock quote from an NSA rep, who says: “[REDACTED] we [REDACTED] condone [REDACTED] warrantless [REDACTED], [REDACTED] SIGINT intercepts, [REDACTED] torture [REDACTED] information retrieval by [REDACTED] means necessary.” Via Boing Boing.

—Posted by Tim Nudd

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