• RIP Mark Klein, whistleblower

    From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 16 22:55:43 2025
    From the «still spyin' though» department:
    Title: RIP Mark Klein, the engineer who exposed US domestic spying ops after wiring it up
    Author: Iain Thomson
    Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:40:12 +0000
    Link: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/03/15/rip_mark_klein/

    AT&T engineer, and the Deep Throat of the network age, dies at 79

    In 2006, a retired AT&T engineer knocked on the door of the EFF's office in a rundown part of San Francisco's Mission district and asked, "Do you folks care about privacy?" With him he carried schematics exposing the largest US government domestic spying operation since Watergate.…

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