AT&T built a secret spy room to help the NSA spy on Americans' Internet communications. I can't say that this sort of thing surprises me any more given the complete erosion of privacy in our country. Not sure if this applies to Comcast (my current Internet provider) or not, although at one time I think AT&T owned Comcast's Internet operation. (In the article it says that it only applies to the dial-up customers, but who knows...)

Good thing I use ssh and https as much as possible. I'd like to use Tor more as well, but it's just too slow. I'd like to be able to threaten boycott of Comcast if they are involved too, but there is really no alternative available that delivers the same speed/cost performance.