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May 17, 2006 2 a.m. - just hours before the EFF and AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein's first hearing on their lawsuit vs AT&T for helping the NSA run a massive internet spying operation
Klein's evidence was under seal. Only a few had seen it. The NYT & LA Times were too scared to publish.
I had gotten a hold of them. Just a freelancer. Wired under EIC Evan Hansen agreed to publish everything.
2 a.m., we published.
Room 641a was public.
AT&T's lawyers death stares were glorious.
RIP Mark Klein
@ryansingel that was such a day. Sitting by you in the court...
...I'm sorry to hear it. He always seemed like a mench.
@quinn He was, and I'm blessed to have you as a witness
. @ryansingel
I remember him as a union man and a good human being.
@ryansingel where was that?
@quinn His book Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine... And Fighting It
@ryansingel right, i have it around here somewhere. or it might be on a container ship coming over. memories are slowly filtering back in.
@ryansingel I do remember explaining to the woman from the ed board that NYT passing on that story in deference to the gov was why I'd never work for them. and she talked me into it, because they were looking to change things, she said.
@ryansingel it's quite the current rogues' gallery of pubs today that passed on that story at the behest of the government... except for wired.
Foreshadowing is real.
@quinn hundo percent!