Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died
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Re: Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died
#2Damn.
I don't know if this started the whole movement or whatever you'd call it for this push towards privacy and the general public knowing about it, but it helped a lot. Before him releasing info about room 641A and whatever else, there really wasn't definitive evidence of any government spying and tampering, and either with the intention of starting this movement or simply letting people know, he was a big push in the right direction.
tldr: he's a w
Re: Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died
#3RIP - truly someone who tried to make the world better.
Re: Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died
#4Had the privilege of watching him receive an award from EFF years ago at ETech. Gave a brief speech. Struck me as a gentle man who really did what he thought was right and for no other purpose. It took moral strength to do what he did. I hope he rests easy.
Re: Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died
#5Nooooooo! He was my next door neighbor a few years ago, and I knew him as a person before I realized that I knew him as a hero.
His dogs were fiercely protective of his house, which is perfectly understandable. One day I saw a "sewer cleaning" van behind his house, and I have a hard time believing that's what it really was: https://honeypot.net/2025/03/12/rip-mark-klein.html
Re: Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died
#6https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Klein
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/interview...
https://www.eff.org/document/public-unredacted-klein-declara...
https://medium.com/@illicitpopsicle/mark-klein-the-nsa-whist... | https://archive.today/LlZSs
https://medium.com/@chelsealynnqueen94/mark-klein-whistleblo... | https://archive.today/7RlfJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44edsh6_LUc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqeMkv5FHfU
(Senator Chris Dodd interviewed Mark, but the video is currently private unfortunately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9aeKF-rOGA)
Re: Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died
#7The tolerance for the US mass spying efforts remains weird. It undermines the credibility of many US politicians around Trump - yes the US public appears to be set to vote in Hitler-equivalents for the forseeable future. No, dismantling the insane spying apparatus is not a major agenda point.
Marry those two ideas together.
Re: Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died
#8Had the privilege of watching him receive an award from EFF years ago at ETech. Gave a brief speech. Struck me as a gentle man who really did what he thought was right and for no other purpose. It took moral strength to do what he did. I hope he rests easy.
Re: Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died
#9Nooooooo! He was my next door neighbor a few years ago, and I knew him as a person before I realized that I knew him as a hero. His dogs were fiercely protective of his house, which is perfectly understandable. One day I saw a "sewer cleaning" van behind his house, and I have a hard time believing that's what it really was: https://honeypot.net/2025/03/12/rip-mark-klein.html
The money shot! I did not realize sewer cleaning required so much onsite IT. Are those rack units running computational fluid dynamics models to figure out how to unclog elaborate networks of pipes?
Re: Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died
#10Nooooooo! He was my next door neighbor a few years ago, and I knew him as a person before I realized that I knew him as a hero. His dogs were fiercely protective of his house, which is perfectly understandable. One day I saw a "sewer cleaning" van behind his house, and I have a hard time believing that's what it really was: https://honeypot.net/2025/03/12/rip-mark-klein.html
The money shot! I did not realize sewer cleaning required so much onsite IT. Are those rack units running computational fluid dynamics models to figure out how to unclog elaborate networks of pipes?
I'd like to believe it was an inspection van: https://nationalplant.com/services/digital-tv-inspection/
I'd like to believe that, but I don't.