Just a few days ago, a man died in the name of Mark Klein – he was technician for wireless and wireless communication AT & T for 22 years and risk everything to open our eyes.

Small mark He does not forget and will never be, at least in the minds of those who are deeply concerned with privacy and illegal government spy:

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the EFF (Electronic Borders Corporation), a non -profit institution for civil freedoms in the digital world, praises Mark Klein and what he did years ago.

Mark Klein has never ever been until those whose violations were informed, but his decision to expose a secret government monitoring program made it a decisive personality in the struggle for privacy rights. For more than two decades, the work of the technique of communications in AT & TMost of that time in San Francisco. He was simply doing his work … until he realized that he played a role in something much larger and more anxious. In late 2005, the New York Times reported on unauthorized NSA monitoring within the United States; It was exactly that Klein tied the points. He saw directly how the program works. Despite his recent retirement by that time, he knew he had to act. In early 2006, he approached the Electronic Border Foundation (EF) with a direct but important question:

Clean revealed that the public’s understanding of collective monitoring.

in AT & TA central office in San Francisco has seen the installation of a secret room controlled by the National Security Agency. This place is called the room 641A. His function requires the connection of the main internet circles to the two visual divisions stationed outside this classified facility directly. These divided people copied everything that passes through AT & TNetworks, transform data directly to the NSA system.

This was not an isolated case – there were miserable settings in other major cities.

It dominates the so -called NSA secret room in the AT & T facility in San Francisco. | Credit image – Mark Klein

Klein did not describe what he saw only. He supported it with evidence. He provided more than a hundred internal pages AT & T Documents, including planning plans and tables that separate monitoring infrastructure. He shared its results with EFF, journalists, and the main members of Congress, so that he met personally with members of the Senate. Senator Chris Dodd moved to the Senate Hall to recognize Klein’s courage and his contribution to exposing the government.

Klein’s evidence has become the basis of two cases, both of which aim to challenge the legitimacy of the collective monitoring he discovered. He also traveled to Washington, and called for transparency and accountability. His experience was later dated in his book, “The Big Brother … and its combat.”

Although facing threats to take legal action from AT & TKlein never retracted. Although Congress and the courts eventually fail to put an end to collective monitoring, the report indicates that the additional disclosure of the informants after years – played a major role in exposing government transcendence. I hope it will rest peace.