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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

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