[HN Gopher] Mark Klein, a Whistleblower Who Revealed Domestic Sp...
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       Mark Klein, a Whistleblower Who Revealed Domestic Spying, Dies at
       79
        
       Author : Gabriel54
       Score  : 66 points
       Date   : 2025-04-11 19:13 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.wsj.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.wsj.com)
        
       | superkuh wrote:
       | Dang. Mark Klein and John Young (cryptome) in two days.
       | Information is going to have a harder time being free. :(
        
         | mewse-hn wrote:
         | Damn, I didn't know that John Young passed.
        
           | eth0up wrote:
           | Why the fuck this isn't on the front page will haunt me until
           | I meet him again and ask, on the yonder side.
           | 
           | I didn't know until I read your comment.
        
             | masfuerte wrote:
             | Has it even been posted? I would but I can't find a good
             | source.
        
               | schoen wrote:
               | I've only seen a single-sentence post on the cryptography
               | mailing list by someone I don't know. (I think the news
               | is true, but it's not the clearest source!)
        
         | ocdtrekkie wrote:
         | Mark passed a month ago, WSJ just finally got around to writing
         | about it.
        
         | webspinner wrote:
         | OK wow had no idea about the Cryptome guy. I haven't been in
         | the fedi lately.
        
         | ics wrote:
         | What source can you find for John Young? Except for one
         | extremely dubious blogspam link I can't find anything
         | confirming this.
        
       | NaOH wrote:
       | Previous discussion:
       | 
       |  _Mark Klein, AT &T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying,
       | has died_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43347662 - Mar
       | 2025 (375 comments)
        
       | biglyburrito wrote:
       | https://archive.md/ur1kt
        
         | webspinner wrote:
         | If you didn't, I was going to.
        
       | kcatskcolbdi wrote:
       | A hero and a true patriot.
        
       | rsingel wrote:
       | Mark wrote a slim volume about this. Well worth a read
       | 
       | https://a.co/d/fGvKd3u
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       | Mark was a true American hero.
        
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