Mark Klein

Mark Klein is an American whistleblower and former AT & T communications engineer who divulged information about the cooperation of his former employer with the National Security Agency (NSA ) in 2006. The revelations came to the Klein conducted by the EFF class action, which was however rejected in 2009 by appealing to the granted by the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies that cooperate with the state.

Career

Mark Klein worked for 22 years for AT & T. He started the company as a Communications Technician in New York to work from November 1981 and remained at this point until March 1991. Later he worked in the same department in California on. From January 1998 to October 2003 Klein worked as a Computer Network Associate in San Francisco. From October 2003 to March 2004 he again worked as a Communications Technician and went into retirement in May 2004.

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Klein discovered that the NSA einklinkte using a splitter in a central management of the Internet service provider AT & T and all the traffic branched off on wiretaps of Boeing subsidiary Narus. This deep packet inspection is possible. The program under the name Room 641A became known. In this real-world space in SBC Communications Building at 611 Folsom Street, San Francisco, the data Abfanganlage was installed. The room had a floor area of ​​approximately 7.3 times 14.6 m and contained a row of racks, including a Narus STA 6400, a device whose purpose is to intercept and monitor faster Internet communication. In this way, the NSA listened to between 2003 to 2006 some nodes from digital communication. Klein decided to make his discovery public, as this comprehensive, indiscriminate wiretapping domestic traffic was contrary to the assertion of President Bush, the NSA only collect calls with terror suspects abroad.

The former director of the "World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group " of the NSA, William Binney, confirmed that were installed 10 to 20 plants distributed as in Room 614A of the United States.

The U.S. activist Jacob Appelbaum wrote in July 2013 to the fall Snowden: " The information revealed small were downplayed, while they were an important example of the extensive espionage program of the NSA. "