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Martin Schmiedecker<p>To this day, I still wonder what exactly is/was behind that door <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/room641a" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>room641a</span></a></p>
maniabel<p>Damals, 2005...</p><p>In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&amp;T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying<br><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memo</span><span class="invisible">riam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/whistleblower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whistleblower</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/eff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/room641A" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>room641A</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/att" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>att</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​<p><strong>In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&amp;T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying</strong></p><blockquote><p>[W]hat Mark told us changed everything. Through his work, Mark had learned that the National Security Agency (NSA) had installed a secret, secure room at AT&amp;T’s central office in San Francisco, called Room 641A. Mark was assigned to connect circuits carrying Internet data to optical “splitters” that sat just outside of the secret NSA room but were hardwired into it. Those splitters—as well as similar ones in cities around the U.S.—made a copy of all data going through those circuits and delivered it into the secret room.</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memo</span><span class="invisible">riam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying</span></a></p><p>Klein provided one of the pre-Snowden disclosures of massive communications surveillance in the United States. I'd included him in an earlier toot from May 2021: <a href="https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/106251396105180975" translate="no" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">toot.cat/@dredmorbius/10625139</span><span class="invisible">6105180975</span></a></p><p>His story also demonstrates that "surveillance state" and "surveillance capitalism" aren't separate things, but part of the same larger surveillance octopus.</p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/MarkKlein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarkKlein</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Room641a" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Room641a</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/ATT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ATT</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/MassSurveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassSurveillance</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/SurveillanceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillanceState</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillanceCapitalism</span></a></p>
sfunk1x<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://todon.eu/@tek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tek</span></a></span> Makes me wonder if <a href="https://tusk.sfunk1x.com/tags/Room641a" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Room641a</span></a> and the likelihood of many more of them in existence, combined with centralization of HTTPS certificate control (Let's Encrypt), means that all of our traffic has been recorded for the better part of 20 years. Not to mention most web searches include URL attributes which are inherently insecure. Perhaps it's just paranoia, but I don't think the true nature of those bifurcated fiber pipes is completely understood.</p>
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