In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying

I moved in down the block from Mark when we first came to the Bay Area. One day he saw me getting out of my car and noticed my EFF hat. He asked if I worked for them, and I said I’m just a happy supporter. He told me they once helped him out of a bind and said I should look him up.

Mark was a super nice guy. He also had the world’s most aggressive golden retrievers that would bark at me as I walked down the block. One day I found a “sewer cleaning” van parked on the parallel street behind his house, but to this day I wonder what it really was. They drove off right after I took a picture of it.

A van labeled for sewer cleaning. It's spotless. There's a man sitting inside it next to a server rack and a set of LCD screens.