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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.