At 611 Folsom Street a telephone technician named Mark Klein, who has a history degree, is shown a room that none of his colleagues may enter, and works out from the cabling what it is for. He says so under his own name, seven years before anyone checks into a hotel in Hong Kong. The chapter explains what a splitter cannot choose, what call records give away, and why a hand-drawn smiley face did more than any court. With Moxie Marlinspike, who moved a billion people's messages out of reach without an argument.
This chapter has not been serialised yet. It will appear on Substack first, and this page will carry its opening when it does.
- In this chapter
- Mark Klein, William Binney, Thomas Drake, Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, Ladar Levison, Moxie Marlinspike, Jan Koum
- The idea it builds
- Encryption in transit against end to end: whether the post office can read your letter; and what a table of call records reveals without a word of content.