How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]

Re:How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] by tedd4u on Thursday April 30, 2026 @01:12PM (#47965484)

This is literally old news - contemporaneous with Snowden, Prism, etc. in early 2000s. Go read about the current Section 702 / FISA authorization renewal battle about which Senator Wyden recently said:

    “I strongly believe that this matter can and should be declassified and that Congress needs to debate it openly before Section 702 is reauthorized,” Wyden said in a Senate floor speech last month. “In fact, when it is eventually declassified, the American people will be stunned that it took so long and that Congress has been debating this authority with insufficient information.”

Some articles:

https://time.com/article/2026/04/27/fisa-fbi-spying-surveill...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/trump-congress-...

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Re:How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] by Calebp on Thursday April 30, 2026 @02:06PM (#47966157)

Well, this report to EFF happened in Jan 2006, and the Snowden/Prism leak happened in 2013, so at the time, it was in fact not "old news". I don't think Prism was even in operation until 2007.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden_disclosures

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Re:How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] by dylan604 on Thursday April 30, 2026 @04:14PM (#47967644)

ECHELON pre-dates Prism by several decades

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Re:How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] by Barbing on Thursday April 30, 2026 @03:56PM (#47967439)

Thank you for the links!

It’s good to understand the new. Also of course good to understand where we came from, imagine a number of users are hearing about PRISM for the first time with this post.

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