Mark Klein is a former

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technician and

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who revealed details of the company's cooperation with the United States

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in installing network hardware at a site known as

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to monitor,

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and process American

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. The subsequent media coverage became a major story in May 2006. He wrote a book about the NSA and AT&T's cooperation in surveiling everyone on the internet and his experience in discovering it and trying to tell the public called ''Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine...And Fighting It''. In recognition of his actions, the

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picked Klein as one of the winners of its 2008 Pioneer Awards. For over 22 years Mark Klein worked for AT&T. Starting with the company as a Communications Technician in New York, where he remained from November 1981 until March 1991, he later continued in that capacity in California until 1998. From January 1998 to October 2003, Klein worked as a Computer Network Associate in San Francisco. Starting in October 2003, he returned to the role of Communications Technician, after which he retired in May 2004.

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Klein's Declaration (unredacted)
from the case '' Hepting v. AT&T'' -

ABC ''Nightline'' Interview with Klein
*
''Wired'' coverage

Spying On The Home Front, ''Frontline'', PBS

* ttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/12/first-interview-nsa-whistleblower First Interview with the NSA Whistleblowerat EFF
''Wiring Up the Big Brother Machine ...And Fighting It'' by Mark Klein

''Wired'' (2008) interview with Klein
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