Oh, the irony AT&T executives crying "intimidation" over a logo while helping the NSA to really intimidate folks.
AT&T Exec Claims EFF's Mocking NSA Logo Creates A 'Chilling Effect'
March 3, 2014

Via Techdirt:

For quite some time, the good folks at EFF have offered awesome NSA Spying Hoodies with their brilliantly re-imagined NSA logo:

You might notice the AT&T logo in the middle there. That's not there just for show. Many years before the world knew of Ed Snowden, an AT&T technician by the name of Mark Klein literally walked in the front door of the EFF's old offices, and revealed how the NSA was installing hardware directly on AT&T's premises to tap directly into the internet backbone, in order to collect basically all internet traffic.

This is the same hoodie that Snowden himself...

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