RIP Mark Klein, the engineer who exposed US domestic spying ops after wiring it up

The Register ^ | 15 March 2025 | Iain Thomson

[ShadowAce]

[George from New England]

A true patriot here that ended up with the big shaft. Thank you Bush.

[SaveFerris]

That's just a silly conspiracy theory!!

By the way, your shoelace is untied.

The cat's out of food.

Oh, and you're low on milk.

And eating too much bacon. /The Island

Oh, and that shampoo is not environmentally-friendly.

Amazon just dropped off your package at the front door.

[Red6]

What is funny is when we complain about other countries and their spying activities, such as China with TicTok.

No kidding, they simply copy us.

The roots of this “evil” web or lies, secrets, and loss of individual privacy as well as censorship were planted by George H. Bush.

The Internet was in its infancy and as President, but also the former head of the the CIA, he ensured that the regulatory framework was put in place that was EXTREMELY favorable for the intelligence community. It didn’t go to the people through legislation or the courts. You had politicians and bureaucrats making the rules up as they go, all to their own advantage.

Today you basically have a web of government and private sector intertwined organizations where everyone is providing a nugget of information or is a gatekeeper to control it. Telecom, Internet providers, operating systems (MS and many others), anti-virus, search engine, social media, everyone is a part of the system and you as a user have no true freedom to navigate information unfiltered nor privacy.

[rlmorel]

Yes. How sad. I can imagine that even if he felt unease, he didn't have proof it was being misused. Of course, he had to help design it, so he likely had some knowledge, but how deep he went down that hole I don't know.

From the writeup, it is clear he had some idea because he was worried enough about the data splitters to keep a copy of what he had done: "...This wholesale routing of information worried him enough that he kept documents showing how the wiring worked just in case..."

I suspect that like many of us, he may have still thought the government wouldn't use this for illegal purposes.

That time frame, between 2004 and today, caused many an American citizen to re-think what our own government might subject its citizenry to. Sure, there were many skeptics (with good reason) but I suspect many of those people (like me) didn't think the government would so flagrantly and openly break the law with something like this.

How naive of me, and I suspect I am not alone in this. Mark Klein may have been in my company from that perspective.

[Openurmind]

“Today you basically have a web of government and private sector intertwined organizations where everyone is providing a nugget of information or is a gatekeeper to control it. Telecom, Internet providers, operating systems (MS and many others), anti-virus, search engine, social media, everyone is a part of the system and you as a user have no true freedom to navigate information unfiltered nor privacy.”

Well said, and that is it in a nutshell. But soon it will all be replaced globally with Musk’s new Starlink/Skynet system.

[SaveFerris]

Daniel 7:23 says the Fourth Kingdom WILL crush the entire Earth 🌎🌍 - IOW control it I submit that is the end game - the ultimate goal of the Globalists

1) Control the Food Supply
2) Control access to money - Digital Currency
3) Eliminate Cash

(Last September, Ellison chillingly said at an Oracle financial analysts’ meeting: "The police will be on their best behavior…citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly reporting and recording everything that’s going on.”)

Globalists love the idea of world 🌏🌎🌍 domination. Eventually they'll get a guy who will fulfill that.

He will confirm 7 years of 'Peace and Security' - 2,520 days in length - 7 x 360-day Jewish years





(lurkers please click on my screen name to see my FR homepage for more information)

Beware the coming confirmation of 7 years of 'Peace and Security'

The man who confirms the 7-year Covenant
of 'Peace and Security' is Satan's Antichrist;
the false messiah; the "instead-of messiah"

[higgmeister]

...Klein was a solid union man...

All I need to know.   Commie Busterd   Give it a rest.

[Openurmind]

I have been hip to it since I found out about In-Q-Tel back in the 90s.

[Big Red Badger]

It’s a Big Red Club
and We ain’t in It.

[Big Red Badger]

In-Q-Tel....
Interesting.

[bgill]

But they’ll let you lay dead in the hallway as the cats feed on you a week before they alert anyone.

[Openurmind]

Yes, along with Palantir.

[higgmeister]

This is actually crazy.   The walls have ears.   That phrase goes back to the Middle Ages.   Just to give you a clue, back in 1978, I was on a evening shift in the Tech Control Facility and had a monitor speaker on one of the Autovon lines back to the States. I happened to hear a call which turned out to be my Squadron Commander talking to a friend.   He was bad mouthing his executive officer saying he was a clueless dork.

Anything anyone can do is just pabulum to lull you into complacency.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,

4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?

6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.

7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.

8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.

9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,

10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,

12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

[montag813]

"NAH...f**k that, we'll just go after YOU!"

[zeestephen]

The primary issue with Crimea and Russia is that the Black Sea is Russia's only warm water port during the winter.

In my opinion, this is mostly an economic and standard of living issue - not a military issue.

It is difficult to envision NATO and Russia fighting a classic naval engagement in the Black Sea.

[Brian Griffin]

Remember, by posting here on FR you are probably going to be placed on a surveillance list.

Type carefully and review before clicking on ‘Post’.

[Darksheare]

And it has continued.
Buried in the J6 hysteria is that they used this domestic spying to go after Americans.