The technician at & t Mark Klein, who exposed the spying of the secret NSA, died
Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician who has become a whistleblower who exposed mass surveillance by the American government, died at 79 years old.
Klein became a public in 2006 with documents revealing that the NSA used a secret room in an AT&T hub in San Francisco to draw from the backbone of the Internet.
Behind the now infamous door Salle 641AListening by optical listening created an identical copy of raw internet traffic and strengthening it to the NSA.
Klein’s disclosure confirmed that the US government has access the Internet data on millions of Americans using powers granted by the Congress following terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
In 2013, the NSA entrepreneur Edward Snowden disclosed thousands of documents classified to journalists detailing the surveillance of NSA on the world.
Klein’s death was Confirmed by the Electronic Frontier FoundationThe Digital Rights Defense Group based in San Francisco that Klein turned to and who continued the federal government after Klein’s disclosure. The case was finally rejected.
