World Wide Wiretap and the Five Bouroghs of New York
The AT&T branded copy at MIT's cutely named "New York Talk Exchange" (is it crashing too?) is as follows:
World Within New York shows how different neighborhoods reach out to the rest of the world via the AT&T telephone network. The city is divided into a grid of 2-kilometer square pixels where each pixel is colored according to the regions of the world wherein the top connecting cities are located. The widths of the color bars represent the proportion of world regions in contact with each neighborhood. Encoded within each pixel is also a list of the world cities that account for 70% of the communications with that particular area of New York.
No mention of intercept, "legal" or otherwise, but this, not pillow talk between consenting US nationals in South West Asia, is what ABC could be reporting. After all, the ABC brand isn't compromised by coverage of the AT&T brand.
If you can't see the NYTE logo at the upper right, click on the permalink, the color-to-country legend is not to be missed.
