"Through his work, Mark had learned that the National Security Agency (NSA) had installed a secret, secure room at AT&T’s central office in San Francisco, called Room 641A. Mark was assigned to connect circuits carrying Internet data to optical “splitters” that sat just outside of the secret NSA room but were hardwired into it. Those splitters—as well as similar ones in cities around the U.S.—made a copy of all data going through those circuits and delivered it into the secret room."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying

"He was one of the early financial backers of The Pirate Bay, which was founded in 2003 to allow users to dodge copyright fees and share music and other files. His company Rix Telecom provided services and equipment to The Pirate Bay till 2005. Lundstrom was one of the defendants charged with being an "accessory to breaching copyright law" when the website was dragged to court for promoting copyright infringement."

https://web.archive.org/web/20250313130533/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pirate-bay-carl-lundstrom-dead-plane-crash-b2714284.html

two brave and hugely influential people who didn't stop fighting what they thought was right even in the face of tyrannical governments and corrupt courts. rest in piece!