"Mark Klein" is a former AT&T technician who leaked knowledge of his company's cooperation with the United States National Security Agency in installing network hardware to monitor, Data Capture/capture and process American telecommunications. The subsequent media coverage became a major story in May 2006.

In recognition of his actions, the Electronic Frontier Foundation picked Klein as one of the winners of its 2008 EFF Pioneer Award/Pioneer Awards.

For over 22 years Mark Klein worked for AT&T. Starting with the company as a Communications Technician in New York, where he remained from November 1981 until March 1991, he later continued in that capacity in California until 1998. From January 1998 to October 2003, Klein worked as a Computer Network Associate in San Francisco. From October 2003 to May 2004 he returned to the role of Communications Technician, after which he retired in May 2004.

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It's a better way to do business.

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There are people who will love you because you're a cop, and there are people who will hate you because you're a cop. The people control more of what happens to us than we do.

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Based on my understanding of the connections and equipment at issue, it appears the NSA is capable of conducting what amounts to vacuum-cleaning surveillance of all the data crossing the Internet, whether that be people's e mail, Web surfing or any other data.

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We have gas plants and coal plants. Through different exchanges and bilateral agreements, we have bought carbon allowances to cover our generation position to 2007. There have been some days when we have been buyers of allowances, fewer days when we have been sellers.

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We use statistics to analyze the transaction records of every customer.

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We assume they will be back at work tomorrow.

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The real unknown for generators and for the petrochemical and cement industries is the allocation method that will be used for carbon allowances in phase two from 2008 onwards, the critical period for meeting the Kyoto targets.

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It should not have been there. It was a product specification issue. However, it's not a food safety issue.

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We've not seen anything like what we've seen here, this domino effect of counties establishing de facto moratoriums. These are moratoriums discriminating against one industry.

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