What is fishy about this, if anything, is that if it's supposed to be a hit on AT&T there was a much more recent accounting of their troubling shenanigans in facilitating parallel construction just yesterday:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/25/at-t-is-spy...

Maybe the repost is supposed to be a diversion, is what I'm implying. However, I see the new story has been posted already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12787065

The article was published on SEPT. 1, 2013.

This article is from 2013.