Kleins cause of death was pancreatic cancer.
Klein learned that the splitter system wasnt just in San Francisco.
But he said it was all for public safety as he was pursuing the bad guys of Al Qaeda.
Mark Klein in the 2007 PBS Frontline episode “Spying on the Home Front” (left) and door revealed to be an NSA spying room at AT&T in the mid-2000s.Screnshots: PBS
Kleins association with the EFF was vital for exposing what he knew.
And the group is clearly grateful for him stepping forward.
The first wasHepting v. AT&Tand the second wasJewel v. NSA.
He wrote an account of his experience calledWiring Up the Big Brother Machine .
Mark stood up and told the truth at great personal risk to himself and his family.
AT&T threatened to sue him, although it wisely decided not to do so.
Snowden leaked classified NSA documents in 2013, but very few articles mentioned Kleins whistleblowing at the time.
NSA spying on vast quantities of internet traffic didnt start with the mid-2000s.
In fact, the U.S. intelligence agencies were there from the internets first baby steps.
They helped invent the damn thing.
Surveillance of the internet by the U.S. government is obviously a huge issue that remains relevant today.
Sure, the government is probably monitoring your internet traffic.
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