That's the AT&T Long Lines building, it is just a building full of servers and phone lines.
The NSA have an office there and would tap lines they deemed suspicious since most calls across the country were routed through it.
91 0 ReplyAnd now it's suspected of housing their mega-computers for illegal mass surveillance. The building is supposedly built to withstand nuclear attack. It's a building built for machines, and an example of brutalist architecture.
44 0 ReplyI think you mean brutalist architecture.
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That sounds a lot like surveillance
24 0 ReplyHere’s the documentary
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_Interest_(TV_series)
10 0 ReplyIf you want more of this sort of stuff wheck out Pine Gap
Lots of shady shit happening here in straya as well
4 0 Reply😂 It's getting more real every second and the fact it sounded stupid.... ( the prediction part I mean )
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It’s actually an NSA listening installation named TITANPOINTE.
Right across Broadway is also the NYC FBI office.
Source: I lived a block away. It was fun making my WiFi network “TITANPOINTE- 5G-300%-POWER” during the pandemic.
44 0 ReplyOh thank God. I thought it was a surveillance center
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It's The Oldest House.
42 0 ReplyYou are a worm through time
13 0 ReplyThe thunder song distorts you
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33 0 ReplyThey use Windows, I hear it's full of bugs.
21 1 ReplyGoddamn Windows 95
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Linux, duh
7 0 ReplyThe NSA actually uses Linux.
They even contributed to it. They also collaborated with RedHead and develope something called SELinux which is a pretty sophisticated permission management tool.
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33 Thomas Street in Manhattan. AT&T and the NSA work together there.
33 0 ReplyHow do they survey you without windows though? Do you think they use Linux?
33 0 ReplyThere are backdoors built into most manufacturer's motherboards nowadays iirc
6 0 ReplyIntel Management Engine is also noted to be a backdoor, which is in the CPU itself.
The Purism laptop disables IME, or at least tries to from what I understand.
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Most likely yes
Servers are like 98% linux or something like that
4 0 ReplyPretty sure there is an emacs extension for seeing through concrete.
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How could it be for surveillance if they can't even see outside the building? 🤷🏻♂️
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CIA: "Come on man makes no sense why a building with no windows to spy on people how can we spy if we can't even look out "
11 0 ReplyLots of buildings like that are often just electrical substations. Never that tall though lol.
10 0 ReplyOr disguised oil rigs.
19 0 ReplyOr jails.
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It's the AT&T Long Lines Building. It's pretty likely the NSA did their surveillance of the international calls (and a lot more) there.
General information: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
Information to TITANPOINTE: https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/the-nsas-spy-hub-in-new-york-hidden-in-plain-sight/
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How would they survey without windows?
9 0 ReplyIs that one of the elevator testing facilities Otis and Thyssen-Krupp operate? Those are tall and windowless as well since they’re just to test elevator models
6 0 ReplyNow I've got the Men in Black theme song stuck in my head. Thanks a lot.
4 0 ReplyIt looks like a vent for a tunnel.
3 0 ReplyThe county jail downtown looks similar.
3 0 ReplyYou live in San Jose?
1 0 ReplyDon't dox me bro. jk no
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No of course it's not just a surveillance center. They have smokers in addition to tineyes.
3 0 ReplyMy money is on urban oil derrick.
4 2 ReplyDatacentre/telephone exchange.
12 0 ReplySomebody posted in another thread. It's the data center for AT&T and the NSA in Manhattan.
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I'm betting subway ventilation equipment.
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