Edward Snowden

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

by Glenn Greenwald  · 12 May 2014  · 253pp  · 75,772 words

Glenn Greenwald No Place to Hide Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State CONTENTS Title Page About the Author Also by Glenn Greenwald Dedication Epigraph Introduction 1. Contact 2. Ten Days in

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for them. In America’s increasingly jingoistic and oppressive political climate, this proved to be an intensely controversial stance. It was this background that prompted Edward Snowden, several years later, to choose me as his first contact person for revealing NSA wrong-doing on an even more massive scale. He said he

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now, either path is possible. Our actions will determine where we end up. 1 CONTACT On December 1, 2012, I received my first communication from Edward Snowden, although I had no idea at the time that it was from him. The contact came in the form of an email from someone calling

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of the couch did I turn around. The first thing I saw was the unsolved Rubik’s Cube, twirling in the man’s left hand. Edward Snowden said hello but did not extend his hand to shake, as the point of the arrangement was to make this encounter appear to be random

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do the same. At 2:00 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday, June 9, the Guardian published the story that revealed Snowden to the world: “Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations.” The top of the article featured Laura’s twelve-minute video; the first line read, “The individual responsible

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for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.” The article told Snowden’s

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a writer. Ellsberg himself, writing the following day in the Guardian, proclaimed that “there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden’s release of NSA material—and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago.” Several hundred thousand people posted the link to their Facebook

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Rio through Dubai, nowhere near the United States. For the moment, I reasoned, I had done enough. 3 COLLECT IT ALL The archive of documents Edward Snowden had assembled was stunning in both size and scope. Even as someone who had spent years writing about the dangers of secret US surveillance, I

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a basic form to “justify” the surveillance, and the system returns the information requested. In the first video interview he gave when in Hong Kong, Edward Snowden made an audacious claim: “I, sitting at my desk, could wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president

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own actions. It is the ultimate imbalance, permitting the most dangerous of all human conditions: the exercise of limitless power with no transparency or accountability. Edward Snowden’s revelations subverted that dangerous dynamic by shining a light on the system and how it functions. For the first time, people everywhere were able

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by General Michael Hayden, who led both the NSA and then the CIA under George Bush, and implemented the agency’s illegal warrantless eavesdropping program. “Edward Snowden,” he wrote on CNN.com, “will likely prove to be the most costly leaker of American secrets in the history of the Republic,” and then

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want to take a look in the mirror if its editors wanted to understand why sources revealing major national security stories, like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, did not feel safe or motivated to bring them their information. It is true that the New York Times published large troves of documents in

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is the true measure of how far adversarial journalism in the United States has fallen. EPILOGUE In the very first online conversation I had with Edward Snowden, he told me he had only one fear about coming forward: that his revelations might be greeted with apathy and indifference, which would mean he

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is the purpose of whistle-blowing, of activism, of political journalism. And that’s what is happening now, thanks to the revelations brought about by Edward Snowden. A NOTE ON SOURCES The endnotes and index for this book can be found at www.glenngreenwald.net. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In recent years, the efforts of

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living in a democracy, everyone who values transparency and accountability, owes these whistleblowers a huge debt of gratitude. The long line of predecessors who inspired Edward Snowden begins with Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg, one of my long-time personal heroes and now my friend and colleague, whose example I try to

Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State

by Barton Gellman  · 20 May 2020  · 562pp  · 153,825 words

by Bart Gellman. This page, photograph courtesy of Ben Wizner. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Names: Gellman, Barton, 1960– author. Title: Dark mirror : Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State / Barton Gellman. Description: New York : Penguin Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019049573 (print) | LCCN 2019049574 (ebook

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step at a time and you climb up the mountain. You can tell that story later. —Author’s chat with Edward Snowden, June 9, 2013 This book takes up the gauntlet that Edward Snowden threw down for me that day, the same day he unmasked himself to the world. Shortly after this exchange, he

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a few, are prepared to accept that this essential conversation would not have happened without him. “I know the world changed as a result of Edward Snowden, in a significant way,” former FBI director James B. Comey told me in a long and contemplative discussion of the leaks. “And I can more

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capability to make it happen. All it would take is paying attention to how the system works, which is your job. —Edward Snowden to author, December 2013 Windows down, radio up, Edward Snowden steered his new Integra north on Highway 750 to a subterranean fortress. The gateway resembled a mine shaft sunk in a

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. After twenty-five years in uniform, he knew he had no say in the decision. In the first week of May 2004, not long before Edward Snowden’s twenty-first birthday, Lon Snowden found a note under his door. “Dad, I know you’re going to be upset,” it began. His son

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passed the physical fitness battery, the Army gave him a contract and a ticket to Fort Benning, Georgia. On June 3, 2004, Private First Class Edward Snowden reported for duty at E Company, Second Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment as a Special Forces recruit. At five feet ten, Snowden began his infantry training

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this panel some months ago, my fellow panelists did not foresee they’d be sitting up onstage with a guy who had communicated clandestinely with Edward Snowden.” An icebreaker, barely worth a chuckle. My kids would have called it a Dad joke. The response did not augur well. Moderator wit, I find

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-level programming,” the classified announcement said. “We are also always open for ideas.” SEVEN FIRSTFRUITS You can’t tell everybody without telling the bad guys. —Edward Snowden to author, December 5, 2013 Late that first summer of Snowden, as I made my way through the NSA archive, I came across my own

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December 21, 2013, to a manager in the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, or NCIX. “In the email, Gellman references conversations he has with Edward Snowden. . . . Are these emails useful for NCIX?” The manager replied, “Yes, these types of correspondence are useful. We will ensure they get to the FBI investigations

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the Google engineer, Ellsberg bent over a borrowed notebook computer. Unfamiliar software logged him into an anonymous account. Somewhere in Moscow, ten time zones away, Edward Snowden awaited Ellsberg online. Each man had played a notable role in his times. Their rendezvous, preserved as a transcript, was self-consciously historic but intended

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secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials. By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from hundreds of millions of user accounts

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-term waiting game. “Neither of us,” Snowden told me, “have a driving need to see any kind of resolution.” ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My first thanks belong to Edward Snowden, who took me into his confidence and gave life to a vital public debate about the boundaries of secret intelligence in a free society. For

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More Power,” New York Times, November 22, 2013, https://nyti.ms/31ToL5T. “I’m not sure I’ll ever”: Edward Snowden and Barton Gellman, live encrypted chat, October 2013. his memoir last year: Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (New York: Henry Holt, 2019). a book about power: See, for example, Jeffrey Vagle, “Surveillance Is Still

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have been very few public references to Q Group. The best one I found is Eli Lake, “Inside the ‘Q Group,’ the Directorate Hunting Down Edward Snowden,” Daily Beast, June 10, 2013, http://thebea.st/1oYatwL. Top Secret, compartmented: The markings on the document were “TOP SECRET//SI//ORCON//NOFORN.” Among other

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://nyti.ms/1TBmnJp, was a profile of the whistleblower William Binney for the newspaper’s “Op-Docs” series. failed to elicit a reply from Greenwald: Edward Snowden used the handle Cincinnatus, not Verax, for contact with Greenwald. Micah Lee, then a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the anonymous source

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the first Snowden disclosure. See “Presidential Policy Directive 19,” October 10, 2012, http://fas.org/irp/offdocs/ppd/ppd-19.pdf. Also see Glenn Kessler, “Edward Snowden’s Claim That He Had ‘No Proper Channels’ for Protection as a Whistleblower,” Washington Post, March 12, 2014, http://wapo.st/1RMjylz. The Intelligence Community

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Cheney: See Gellman, Angler, chapters 11 and 12. “Wish I knew the underlying details”: Author to Poitras, August 7, 2012. Years later he told me: Edward Snowden, interview with author, July 1, 2015, Moscow. one final breach of NSA defenses: I tell this story in the final chapter of this book. “Edward

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lengthy exchange of emails, that he had planned to bike but changed his mind and drove despite the small risk of an epileptic seizure. See Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (New York: Henry Holt, 2019), 215. six seizure-free months before driving: Hawaii’s law was actually stricter than Maryland’s, which forbade

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Wheeler, and Ky Henderson, “Exclusive: Snowden Tried to Tell NSA About Surveillance Concerns, Documents Reveal,” Vice News, June 4, 2016, https://news.vice.com/article/edward-snowden-leaks-tried-to-tell-nsa-about-surveillance-concerns-exclusive. The full correspondence is at www.documentcloud.org/documents/2852366-Leopold-FOIA-NSA-Emails-About-Snowden

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, December 29, 2001, https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=16430380#p16430380. Shrike and Belgarion: Snowden, Permanent Record, 48. His father, Lonnie G. Snowden Jr.: Edward Snowden and a family confidant, interviews with author, 2015 and 2016. See also Bryan Burrough, Sarah Ellison, and Suzanna Andrews, “The Snowden Saga: A Shadowland of

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Secrets and Light,” Vanity Fair, May 2014, www.vanityfair.com/news/politics/2014/05/edward-snowden-politics-interview. Snowdens moved north: In 1993, the Snowdens bought a house on Knights Bridge Turn in Crofton, Maryland. See Julie Bykowicz and Greg Giroux

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, see iqcomparisonsite.com/iqtable.aspx. Also see James Bamford, “The Most Wanted Man in the World,” Wired, August 22, 2014, www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden/. Snowden’s older sister: Federal Judicial Center, “Annual Report” (2015), https://archive.fo/yhlza. She skipped a grade: Family confidant, interview with author, July 22

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: Family confidant, interview with author, October 12, 2015. His grades were erratic: Family confidant, interview with author, July 22, 2014. refused to return to school: Edward Snowden, interviews with author, 2015. See also Snowden, Permanent Record, 65. “The public education system”: The accent in “spikéd” and the confusion of “its” and “it

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at random: Snowden and a family confidant, interviews with author, 2014 and 2015. See also Jean Marbella, Shashank Bengali, and David S. Cloud, “Details About Edward Snowden’s Life in Maryland Emerge,” Baltimore Sun, June 10, 2010, www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-snowden-profile-20130610-story.html. “I’m not

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system engineering: Snowden, interview with author, July 1, 2015, Moscow; family confidant, interview with author, December 10, 2015. See also Matthew Mosk et al., “Timeline: Edward Snowden’s Life as We Know It,” ABC News, June 13, 2013, http://abcn.ws/21lizMS. Johns Hopkins University cut its ties with the for-profit

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, Ryuhana Press, Wayback Machine, July 9, 2003, http://web.archive.org/web/20030709083138/http://www.ryuhanapress.com/jodon.html. move-by-move reaction times: See Edward Snowden, writing as TheTrueHOOHA, “Tekken Fans Rite This Way,” Ars Technica OpenForum, April 28, 2003, https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=12972113#p12972113. Armed with

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Battery: Rod Powers, “All About the DLAB,” USmilitary.about.com, October 23, 2015, http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/joiningup/a/dlab.htm. Private First Class Edward Snowden: Snowden’s Army discharge papers, on file with author, include his dates of service from June 3, 2004, to September 28, 2004, his rank as

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Industries, for his part-time employer. Snowden, Permanent Record, 70. The firm was actually called Clockwork Chihuahua Studios. “The truth is going to get out”: Edward Snowden, interview with author, Moscow, December 6, 2013. he donated $250: Snowden’s campaign contributions, as distinguished from those of a theatrical producer and a tech

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Paul Gives Thanks to Leaker,” CNN, June 10, 2013, http://cnn.it/28Lj7Xx. he wore a hoodie: Andy Greenberg, “An NSA Coworker Remembers the Real Edward Snowden: ‘A Genius Among Geniuses,’” Forbes, December 16, 2013, http://onforb.es/1YWdXMc. eagle wearing comically oversized headphones: Aaron Jue, “NSA Spying Hoodies,” Electronic Frontier Foundation

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, October 16, 2012, www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/nsa-spying-hoodies. He also kept a copy: Greenberg, “NSA Coworker Remembers the Real Edward Snowden.” Runa Sandvik: Snowden (as “Cincinnatus”) to Sandvik, Novmber 18, 2012, copy on file with author. At this writing, Sandvik is chief of information security at

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the record.” “It’s not an exaggeration”: Snowden, chat with author, February 13, 2014. “If you had a guy”: Greenberg, “NSA Coworker Remembers the Real Edward Snowden.” published an automated notice: The lists were published as self-updating RSS feeds, an acronym for “really simple syndication.” crawl around digital networks: The best

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//SI//REL, on file with author. CAPTAINCRUNCH: Confidential source, interview with author, 2015. In his first filmed interview: Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, “NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘I Don’t Want to Live in a Society That Does These Sort of Things,’” Guardian, June 9, 2013, www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013

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/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-interview-video. boarded a flight to Tokyo: Most accounts have reported erroneously that Snowden took a direct flight from Honolulu to Hong Kong. He told

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-Pike: What’s Different Now,” address at the National Security Agency, May 15, 2015, on file with author. “You may have time constraints”: Author to Edward Snowden, email, May 18, 2013. Our conversation that day was prospective, as I did not yet have the document in hand. I was trying to understand

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documents, pertaining solely to PRISM, amid his own ongoing work on the larger story. None of that was correct. Glenn Greenwald, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014), 16–18. the Post and I assembled lawyers: Ibid. This was a

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directly with Snowden in late March or early April, he said,” according to that story. Michael Calderone, “How Glenn Greenwald Began Communicating with NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden,” Huffington Post, June 10, 2013, http://huff.to/1pBnqfl, archived at https://archive.is/fFeol. unaware that Verax was the Cincinnatus: Greenwald, No Place to

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for Living Under Total Surveillance (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2016); screen shots from the documentary film Citizen Four (Praxis Films, 2014); and Edward Snowden’s pseudonymous video, anon108, “GPG for Journalists—Windows edition | Encryption for Journalists | Anonymous 2013,” Vimeo, January 6, 2013, https://vimeo.com/56881481. I know of

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, p. 20, on file with author. “The actual architecture is very”: Chris Inglis, interview with author, June 14, 2013. a twelve-minute video: “NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘I Don’t Want to Live in a Society That Does These Sort of Things’—Video,” Guardian, June 9, 2013, www.theguardian.com/world/video

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/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-interview-video. “I’m scrolling through my Twitter feed”: C. Danielle Massarini, interview with author, August 12, 2016. CHAPTER FIVE: BACKLASH “We’re not going

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Hong Kong authorities. The grand jury empaneled in Norfolk very likely has handed up a sealed indictment alleging additional criminal counts. See Criminal Complaint of Edward Snowden, United States v. Edward J. Snowden, Case No. 1:13 CR 265, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at https://perma

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31, 2017, at https://perma.cc/HRW5-ETNP. his coming-out video: The Guardian posted the videotaped interview: Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, “NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘I Don’t Want to Live in a Society That Does These Sort of Things,’” Guardian, on June 9, 2013, www.theguardian.com/world/video

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/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-interview-video. Hong Kong–based reporter: Lana Lam, “EXCLUSIVE: Whistle-Blower Edward Snowden Talks to South China Morning Post,” South China Morning Post, June 12, 2013, at https://perma.cc/7BM6-7DBQ

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resemblance: Some have seen these differences as essential to the legitimacy of their respective leaks, comparing Snowden unfavorably to Ellsberg. See Malcolm Gladwell, “Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, and the Modern Whistle-Blower,” New Yorker, December 19 and 26, 2016, at https://perma.cc/YU2E-EY8W. then six hypotheses: Ashkan typed out a

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on how Snowden does and does not fit into theoretical models of legitimate civil disobedience, see David Pozen, “Edward Snowden, National Security Whistleblowing and Civil Disobedience,” Lawfare, March 26, 2019, www.lawfareblog.com/edward-snowden-national-security-whistleblowing-and-civil-disobedience. The essay was adapted from the forthcoming volume Whistleblowing Nation: Disclosing U.S

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”: Rajesh De, interview with author, July 18, 2013. tamper-detection device: This project, called Haven, was coauthored with security developer Nathan Freitas. See Micah Lee, “Edward Snowden’s New App Uses Your Smartphone to Physically Guard Your Laptop,” Intercept, December 22, 2017, https://theintercept.com/2017/12/22/snowdens-new-app-uses

Permanent Record

by Edward Snowden  · 16 Sep 2019  · 324pp  · 106,699 words

to remember the teacher’s name, or trying not to. She, the polygrapher, began asking questions. The first ones were no-brainers: Was my name Edward Snowden? Was 6/21/83 my date of birth? Then: Had I ever committed a serious crime? Had I ever had a problem with gambling? Had

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the agency. I wish I remembered the exact chronology of my contracting, but I don’t have a copy of my résumé anymore—that file, Edward_Snowden_Resume.doc, is locked up in the Documents folder of one of my old home computers, since seized by the FBI. I do recall, however

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and had me call him. A secretary picked up and I told her that my name was Lindsay Mills and I was the girlfriend of Edward Snowden and needed representation. The secretary said, “Oh, let me put you right through.” It was funny to hear the recognition in her voice. Jerry picked

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’t, green’s not your color. At the fitting room’s entrance was a TV blaring the news and I froze when the announcer said “Edward Snowden’s girlfriend.” I fled the stall, and stood in front of the screen. Watching as my photos flicked by. I whipped out my phone and

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can end this book is the way I began it: with a dedication to Lindsay, whose love makes life out of exile. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edward Snowden was born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and grew up in the shadow of Fort Meade. A systems engineer by training, he served as an

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Road, London N1 9RR Associated companies throughout the world www.panmacmillan.com ISBN 978-1-5290-3567-4 Copyright © Edward Snowden 2019. Jacket design by Rodrigo Corral Jacket photograph © Platon The right of Edward Snowden to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright

The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age

by David E. Sanger  · 18 Jun 2018  · 394pp  · 117,982 words

the concentrated Chinese effort will flow directly to the country’s military might. An equivalent to the Silicon Valley/Washington divide, which bubbled along before Edward Snowden’s disclosures and re-erupted in the battles over the government’s effort to get a back door into encrypted systems, does not exist in

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as the director say”: Maya Rhodan, “New NSA Chief: Snowden Didn’t Do That Much Damage,” Time, June 30, 2014, time.com/2940332/nsa-leaks-edward-snowden-michael-rogers/. But Merkel was outraged: Alison Smale, “Germany, Too, Is Accused of Spying on Friends,” New York Times, May 6, 2015, www.nytimes.com

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

by Nicole Perlroth  · 9 Feb 2021  · 651pp  · 186,130 words

. Together, Jill and Dean said Scott and I were to work alongside the Guardian and ProPublica to write two stories based off the leaks from Edward Snowden, the infamous NSA contractor who had removed thousands of classified documents from the agency’s computers before fleeing to Hong Kong, and later taking up

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Apple’s backdoor? Back and forth Apple and the Justice Department went, in a courtroom dispute that captivated the country. Everyone from the president to Edward Snowden to the comedian John Oliver weighed in. Polls showed Americans were split but tilting toward Apple, more so every day. Even Carole Adams, the mother

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on Operation Ivy Bells to describe the undersea cable tap: “40 Years Ago, The Navy’s ‘Operation Ivy Bells’ Ended With a 70s Version of Edward Snowden,” published by Business Insider. A history of Los Alamos is available via the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of History and Heritage Resources

Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy

by Eric O'Neill  · 1 Mar 2019  · 299pp  · 88,375 words

and former CIA employee walked out of the NSA with thumb drives loaded with (according to the NSA) an estimated 1.7 million classified files. Edward Snowden has personally admitted to stealing hundreds of thousands of highly classified files detailing US intelligence-collection programs by the NSA. (The actual number is likely

The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man

by Luke Harding  · 7 Feb 2014  · 266pp  · 80,018 words

Had Your Fun 10. Don’t Be Evil 11. Flight 12. Der Shitstorm! 13. The Broom Cupboard 14. Shoot the Messenger Epilogue: Exile Acknowledgements Foreword Edward Snowden is one of the most extraordinary whistleblowers in history. Never before has anyone scooped up en masse the top-secret files of the world’s

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in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded …’ EDWARD SNOWDEN It began with an email. ‘I am a senior member of the intelligence community …’ No name, no job title, no details. The Guardian columnist Glenn

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, next to a large plastic alligator. They would swap pre-agreed phrases. The source would carry a Rubik’s cube. Oh, and his name was Edward Snowden. It appeared the mystery interlocutor was an experienced spy. Perhaps one with a flair for the dramatic. Everything Greenwald knew about him pointed in one

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May 2012. After that he disappears, a lost electronic signature amid the vastness of cyberspace. But a year later, as we now know, TheTrueHOOHA, aka Edward Snowden, travels to Hong Kong. Edward Joseph Snowden was born on 21 June 1983. Friends know him as ‘Ed’. His father Lonnie Snowden and mother Elizabeth

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left Japan and moved across the Pacific to Hawaii. At the same time, it seems he donated to his libertarian political hero Ron Paul. An ‘Edward Snowden’ contributed $250 to Paul’s presidential campaign from an address in Columbia, Maryland. The record describes the donor as an employee of Dell. In May

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men ‘intelligencers’ or ‘espials’; what they got up to was espiery. (The French term espionage only came into use from the 18th century onwards.) But Edward Snowden, the modern-day espial, could not use his true name if he was to reach out to the US reporters who worked on national security

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list.’ Five months later, during their encounter in Hong Kong, Greenwald realised his would-be source back in late 2012 had been none other than Edward Snowden. Snowden was among Greenwald’s community of readers. Liking Greenwald’s world view, his brio and his uncompromising approach to government, Snowden had reached out

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: ‘Your destination is Hong Kong.’ The next day a further message arrived for Poitras, in which the source for the first time gave his name: ‘Edward Snowden’. The name meant nothing; Poitras knew that if she searched Snowden’s name on Google this would immediately alert the NSA. Attached was a map

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Julian Assange of WikiLeaks was to call, with only some exaggeration, ‘the greatest spying machine the world has ever seen’. But before the appearance of Edward Snowden, very little of the truth about that had reached the surface. The NSA – the biggest and most secretive of the US intelligence agencies – failed on

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biggest and most intrusive domestic and international surveillance programs were thus kept from the American public in whose name they were being carried out. When Edward Snowden got on a plane for Hong Kong in 2013, the material he held on his laptops was highly explosive. 5 THE MAN IN THE ROOM

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anyway. So we have literally nothing to lose in terms of access.’ The Guardian was the third-largest newspaper website in the world, well before Edward Snowden came along. But seemingly the White House had little idea what the title was – a newspaper, a free sheet, a blog? – or about the nature

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were a Chinese spy, why wouldn’t I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace, petting a phoenix, by now.’ EDWARD SNOWDEN It had been around 3am local time when the Guardian broke the first of Snowden’s NSA stories. Returning to his Hong Kong hotel room

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project, developed by the UK. Its fruits are handed over to London’s US paymasters. The program is so sensitive that exposures of it by Edward Snowden drive British officials into fits of anxiety and rage. Those officials’ dream is to ‘master the internet’. This phrase of theirs was what Snowden meant

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soon became frowsty. ‘It smells like a teenage boy’s bedroom in here,’ said one visitor. Posted onto a whiteboard was a memo from Rusbridger: ‘Edward Snowden approached the Guardian because he says people have no idea of the extent of what he regards as the surveillance state. He argues that technology

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South China Morning Post, to that of a ‘people smuggler’. Proprietorially claiming Snowden as the latest star player for Team WikiLeaks, the statement said: ‘Mr Edward Snowden, the American whistleblower who exposed evidence of a global surveillance regime conducted by US and UK intelligence agencies, has left Hong Kong legally. He is

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easy knowing I cannot be coerced into revealing that information, even under torture. With my thanks for your service to the nation we both love, Edward Snowden The letter set out cardinal Snowdon themes: love of country, civic duty, a desire to protect the constitution. Its tone was high-minded and in

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a terrorist. The British authorities knew that perfectly well. He was the partner of a journalist. They suspected he was in fact carrying copies of Edward Snowden’s NSA and GCHQ files, which Greenwald was engaged in researching and publishing. Their prime purpose, as they were later to admit, was simply to

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remarked that the details of snooping exposed by newspapers are ‘not even remotely related to fighting terrorism’. He wrote: ‘Osama bin Laden did not need Edward Snowden’s revelations about PRISM to realise the US was listening to every bit of electronic communication: he had already seceded from the world of telephony

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Home Office said it had acted in the interests of national security. The authorities had wanted to know ‘where Mr Miranda fitted in the broader Edward Snowden network’. The journalists involved weren’t motivated by public interest but were ‘advancing a political or ideological cause’. The day after the review finished – with

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. Now, it seemed, they were suspects. Epilogue: Exile Somewhere near Moscow 2014–? ‘Even in Siberia there is happiness.’ ANTON CHEKHOV, In Exile For nine weeks Edward Snowden was mostly invisible. There was the odd photo – of a young man pushing a shopping trolley across a Moscow street. (Surely a fake? The man

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your country when the situation is resolved and thank you for your efforts in upholding the international laws that protect us. ‘With my best regards ‘Edward Snowden’ Days later, Harrison said goodbye to Snowden and flew to Berlin. She had been with him in Moscow for four months. On what was said

Snowden's Box: Trust in the Age of Surveillance

by Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge  · 29 Mar 2020  · 159pp  · 42,401 words

the NSA revelations, the talk show host John Oliver dispatched a camera crew to Times Square. Interviewing passersby, they found most could not accurately identify Edward Snowden. Folks remembered some kind of leak had happened, but not what it was or why it mattered. (They did, however, express grave anxiety over the

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state — a despot’s dream — it would have been impossible. Intermediate steps and experiments would have been quashed at every turn. In the days after Edward Snowden’s first leaks, the security researcher Moxie Marlinspike referred to that process in a blog post called “We Should All Have Something to Hide.” “Imagine

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way it was handled would be a disservice to our source, the risks we’ve all taken, and most importantly, to the public for whom Edward Snowden blew the whistle.” She added that, even though the archive was no longer breaking news, “it remains the most significant historical archive documenting the rise

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Bamford, “The Most Wanted Man In The World,” Wired, September 2014. p. 2 an existential threat to democracy: Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, and Laura Poitras, “Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations,” Guardian, June 9, 2013. p. 3 General Social Survey: Chris Cillizza, “Watch Americans’ Trust in Each Other Erode

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the Bobby McFerrin classic: youtube.com/watch?v=LbTxfN8d2CI. p. 7 Despite my intentions, I never created the time: Glenn Greenwald, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014), 9. p. 8 You always have to trust somebody: Jon Evans, “WhatsApp, Signal and

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Times’ Editor: Losing Snowden Scoop ‘Really Painful,’” National Public Radio, June 5, 2014, Npr.org. p. 40 New York Times “far too accommodating of power”: Edward Snowden, encrypted email to Laura Poitras in early May 2013. p. 40 the Times spiked a story: Margaret Sullivan, “Lessons in a Surveillance Drama Redux,” New

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Snowden answering questions: On June 9, the Guardian ran a short film by Laura Poitras. It showed Snowden answering questions posed by Greenwald. “NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things,’” Guardian, video, June 9, 2013, www.theguardian.com/world/video

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/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-interview-video. p. 48 The Mira Hotel in Kowloon: Ewen MacAskill, “Edward Snowden: How the Spy Story of the Age Leaked Out,” Guardian, June 12, 2013. p. 49 “I will never commit

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source had contacted another Freedom of the Press Foundation board member: Greenwald, No Place to Hide, 7. pp. 70–2 twelve-minute instructional video: anon108 [Edward Snowden], “GPG for Journalists,” uploaded Sunday, January 6, 2013, vimeo.com/user15675314. p. 72 “Cincinnatus” described his mounting frustration: Greenwald, No Place to Hide, 10. p

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selected”: Poitras, Citizenfour, 4:22–5:06. p. 73 DARKDIAMOND for Laura and SILVERSHOT for Micah: Poitras, Astro Noise, 101. p. 73 COPPERCOMET for Greenwald: Edward Snowden to Laura Poitras in an encrypted email on April 21, 2013. pp. 73–4 Henk Penning on trust: “On the Apache.org Web of Trust

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“confirm that no one has ever had a copy of your private key”: Poitras, Citizenfour, 1:19–1:27. p. 80 Lindsay Mills: Paul Lewis, “Edward Snowden’s Girlfriend Lindsay Mills: At the Moment I Feel Alone,” Guardian, June 11, 2013. 4. American Amnesia p. 83 “Power concedes nothing without a demand

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Surveillance: Live Updates,” RT Question More, October 26, 2013, rt.com. p. 85 Snowden statement: Jesselyn Radack, “My Visit with Edward Snowden,” Nation, October 17, 2013; “Stop Watching Us Rally 10/26/13 Edward Snowden Statement,” YouTube. p. 85 “Privacy Chernobyl”: Till Wäscher, “Six Frames against Surveillance,” Internet Policy Observatory, Globalnetpolicy.org. p. 86

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iPhone a ‘Marketing Strategy,’” New York Times, February 19, 2016. p. 94 Snowden told the Guardian he had no regrets: Ewen MacAskill and Alex Hern, “Edward Snowden: ‘The People Are Still Powerless, but Now They’re Aware,” Guardian, June 4, 2018. p. 95 John Oliver in Times Square: Adam Chandler, “What It

Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex

by Yasha Levine  · 6 Feb 2018  · 474pp  · 130,575 words

2 Command, Control, and Counterinsurgency Chapter 3 Spying on Americans Part II: False Promises Chapter 4 Utopia and Privatization Chapter 5 Surveillance Inc. Chapter 6 Edward Snowden’s Arms Race Chapter 7 Internet Privacy, Funded by Spies Epilogue: Mauthausen, Austria Acknowledgments About the Author Notes Index To Nellie and Boris, my parents

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ago, and uncovering the close ties that exist between US intelligence agencies and the antigovernment privacy movement that has sprung up in the wake of Edward Snowden’s leaks. Surveillance Valley shows that little has changed over the years: the Internet was developed as a weapon and remains a weapon today.

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relevant in hindsight. It would take more than twenty years for the Internet to spread into most American homes, and four decades would pass before Edward Snowden’s leaks made the world aware of the massive amount of government surveillance happening over the Internet. Today, people still think that surveillance is

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in a 1970s cybernetic utopia gone bad. It is also an accurate description of the world Google and the Internet have made today. Chapter 6 Edward Snowden’s Arms Race A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy. —Timothy C. May, The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, 1988 In

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gray shirt open at the collar sitting on a hotel room sofa—calm but looking like he hadn’t slept for days. His name was Edward Snowden—“Ed,” as he wanted people to call him. He was twenty-nine years old. His résumé was a veritable treasure trove of spook world

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they also be used to fight terrorism, prevent crime, and keep the world safe? The answer is: Of course they can. By the time Edward Snowden appeared on the scene, police departments from San Francisco to Miami were using social media platforms to infiltrate and watch political groups and monitor protests

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the eyes and ears of a vast interconnected early warning system predicting human behavior—and ultimately change the course of the future. By the time Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the NSA in the summer of 2013, at least a dozen publicly disclosed US government programs were leveraging open source

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In the 2000s, as the Internet grew into a commercial telecommunications network, the NSA’s signals intelligence mission expanded as well. By the time Edward Snowden transferred to his last and final NSA contracting job at Booz Allen Hamilton in Hawaii in 2013, the agency had a bead on just about

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NSA, the industry was somehow able to convince the world that it was different, that it somehow stood in opposition to traditional power. Then Edward Snowden screwed everything up. Public disclosure of the NSA’s PRISM program gave a glimpse into the symbiotic relationship between Silicon Valley and the US government

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bloggers, academics, think tanks, Astroturf groups, lobbyists, and journalists sat at their keyboards, staring at their hands, waiting with bated breath for a backlash.39 Edward Snowden terrified the industry. Catapulted to the status of a cult hero, he now wielded massive influence. He could easily focus on Silicon Valley’s private

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breed of whistle-blower,” wrote James Bamford.49 But for all the praise he received, this modern-day Daniel Ellsberg cut a peculiar political profile. Edward Snowden eventually escaped to Russia, the only country that could guarantee his safety from the long arm of the United States. There, while living under

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in the liberatory promise of Tor and cryptography. In his public statements, Dread Pirate Roberts came off as a typical libertarian, not much different from Edward Snowden. He followed Austrian Economics, argued against environmental regulations and child labor laws, praised sweatshops, and mocked the need for minimum wage: “How about someone

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it to avoid government surveillance and repression in countries like China and Iran. Leakers and whistle-blowers used the network, too. That’s where Edward Snowden came into the story: Tor’s ability to hide people from the prying eyes of the NSA was a key factor in his leaks; he

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couldn’t have carried them out successfully without it. Snowden Tor Edward Snowden was a huge fan of the Tor Project. He, like the Dread Pirate Roberts, believed in the power of cryptography to liberate the Internet

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s dark side. Its ability to protect child pornographers from accountability only proved its effectiveness, demonstrating that the technology really was the powerful privacy tool Edward Snowden claimed it to be. Tor was the Internet’s AK-47—a cheap, durable field weapon everyday people could use to overthrow America’s surveillance

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was happening. My problems had begun when I started digging into the Tor Project. I investigated Tor’s central role in the privacy movement after Edward Snowden presented the project as a panacea to surveillance on the Internet. I wasn’t convinced, and it didn’t take long to find a

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Tor’s puzzling government support, the leading lights of the privacy community answered it with attacks. Micah Lee, the former EFF technologist who helped Edward Snowden communicate securely with journalists and who now works at The Intercept, attacked me as a conspiracy theorist and accused me and my colleagues at Pando

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low and tried to understand why my reporting elicited such a vicious and weird reaction from the privacy community. Military contractors hailed as privacy heroes? Edward Snowden promoting a Pentagon-funded tool as a solution to NSA surveillance? Google and Facebook backing privacy technology? And why were privacy activists so hostile to

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cannon platform in the North Sea off England’s coast. Look that way and find Sarah Harrison, WikiLeaks member and Julian Assange confidante who helped Edward Snowden escape arrest in Hong Kong and find safety in Moscow. She’s laughing and having a good time. I wave as I pass her

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developers and celebrity supporters talk about their fights against Internet surveillance. Last year, the stage featured Laura Poitras, the Academy Award–winning director of the Edward Snowden documentary, Citizen Four. In her speech, she held up Tor as a powerful antidote to America’s surveillance state. “When I was communicating with

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laps it up. They love Jacob Appelbaum. Everyone at 32c3 loves Jacob Appelbaum. Appelbaum is the most storied member of the Tor Project. After Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, he is arguably the most famous personality in the Internet privacy movement. He is also the most outrageous. For five years he

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Internet.103 Strangely enough, these efforts were about to get a major credibility boost from an unlikely source: an NSA contractor by the name of Edward Snowden. Strange Alliances The post-WikiLeaks years were good for the Tor Project. With the government contracts flowing, Roger Dingledine expanded the payroll, adding a

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to vet the possible leaker and to make sure he really was the NSA technician he claimed to be. This source turned out to be Edward Snowden.108 From the start, the Tor Project stood at the center of Snowden’s story. The leaker’s endorsement and promotion introduced the project

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a Hacker’s Medal of Valor. With Snowden’s backing, no one even thought to question Tor’s radical antigovernment bona fides. To some, Edward Snowden was a hero. To others, he was a traitor who deserved to be executed. Officials at the NSA claimed that he had caused irreparable harm

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and every intelligence agency and contractor went on to invest in costly “insider threat” programs designed to spy on employees and make sure that another Edward Snowden would never pop up again. Some called for bringing him back in a black-ops kidnapping; others, like Donald Trump, called for him to

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young adult science fiction author whose books about a totalitarian government’s surveillance were read and admired by Laura Poitras, Jacob Appelbaum, Roger Dingledine, and Edward Snowden.122 Doctorow was a huge personality in the crypto movement who could fill giant conference halls at privacy conferences. He publicly endorsed OTF’s Internet

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. Fight for the Future, a Silicon Valley–funded privacy activist organization, described Signal and Tor as “NSA-proof” and urged people to use them. Edward Snowden was the combo’s biggest and most famous booster and repeatedly took to Twitter to tell his three million followers that he used Signal and

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protect their users from government surveillance? Privacy activists working with Silicon Valley and the US government to fight government surveillance—and with the support of Edward Snowden himself? It is very hard to imagine that back in the 1960s student radicals at Harvard and MIT would have ever thought to partner

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of government involvement in the privacy space sounds like something cooked up by a paranoiac. In any event, with support from someone as celebrated as Edward Snowden, few had any reason to question why apps like Signal and Tor existed, or what larger purpose they served. It was easier and simpler

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people could come together to fund tools that countervailed the surveillance power of the state. That suited the sponsors of Internet Freedom just fine. After Edward Snowden, OTF was triumphant. It didn’t mention the leaker by name in its promotional materials, but it profited from the crypto culture he promoted

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and appeared to be a place where organized criminals could hide in plain sight—until it wasn’t. In October 2013, four months after Edward Snowden came out of hiding and endorsed Tor, a twenty-nine-year-old native Texan by the name of Ross Ulbricht was arrested in a public

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Ulbricht’s encrypted laptop showed that he believed he was fully protected by Tor. He believed in Tor’s claims that were backed up by Edward Snowden and promoted by Jacob Appelbaum. He believed that everything he did in the murkiness of the dark web would have no bearing on him

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the clock if he is convicted for any of his murders for hire. The fall of Silk Road pricked Tor’s invincibility. Even as Edward Snowden and organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation promoted Tor as a powerful tool against the US surveillance state, that very surveillance state was poking Tor

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Although demands like this make sense in a research context, they were baffling when applied to Tor. After all, Tor and its backers, including Edward Snowden, presented the project as a real-world anonymity tool that could resist the most powerful attackers. If it was so frail that it needed academic

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What was going on? Why was the government working at cross-purposes? Did one part simply not know what the other was doing? Strangely enough, Edward Snowden’s NSA documents provided the beginnings of an answer. They showed that multiple NSA programs could punch through Tor’s defenses and possibly even uncloak

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them. As for the other crypto tools financed by the US government? They suffered similar security and honeypot pitfalls. Take Signal, the encrypted app Edward Snowden said he used every day. Marketed as a secure communication tool for political activists, the app had strange features built in from the very beginning

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.151 They also might work for someone with a high degree of technical savvy—say, a wily hacker like Julian Assange or a spy like Edward Snowden—who can use Signal and Tor combined with other techniques to effectively cover their tracks from the NSA. But, for the average user, these

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a part of a geopolitical business strategy, a way of subtly pressuring countries that closed their networks and markets to Western technology companies. But after Edward Snowden’s revelations exposed the industry’s rampant private surveillance practices to the public, Internet Freedom offered another powerful benefit. For years, public opinion has been

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politics to crypto apps—software made by the very same powerful entities that these apps are supposed to protect us from. In that sense, Edward Snowden is like the branded face of an Internet consumerism-as-rebellion lifestyle campaign, like the old Apple ad about shattering Big Brother or the Nike

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the consequences,” the right-wing talk show personality (@glennbeck) tweeted on June 9, 2013, https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/343816977929867265. 49. Bamford, “Edward Snowden: The Untold Story.” 50. Barton Gellman, “Edward Snowden, After Months of NSA Revelations, Says His Mission’s Accomplished,” Washington Post, December 23, 2013. 51. Scott Shane, “Documents on 2012 Drone

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very people who would design the future features of the Internet—academics as well as employees of the most powerful tech companies in the world. “Edward Snowden at IETF93,” YouTube video, 56:01, posted by Dev Random, July 28, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =0NvsUXBCeVA&feature=youtu.be. 65.

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Glenn Greenwald, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014), 24. 66. They posed for a photo at the thirtieth TED

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to be “NSA-proof” and recommended that people use it every day. Laura Poitras, director of Citizen Four, the Academy Award–winning documentary on Edward Snowden, endorsed Tor as well. “When I was communicating with Snowden for several months before I met him in Hong Kong, we talked often about the

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only tool to be able to do that,” she told an auditorium full of people at a hacker conference in Germany, a giant picture of Edward Snowden projected behind her on stage (Katina, “This Is What a Tor Supporter Looks Like: Laura Poitras,” Tor Project [blog], November 23, 2015, https://blog

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reporter/. 76. Anonymous (@YourAnonNews), Twitter post, November 24, 2014, 11:19 am, https://surveillancevalley.com/content/citations/youranonnews-twitter-24-november-2014.png. 77. After Edward Snowden appeared on the scene in 2013, Fight for the Future launched several antisurveillance campaigns, including helping organize a big anti-NSA rally in Washington, DC

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documentary film, May 2016. 108. “The NSA and Its Willing Helpers,” Spiegel Online, July 8, 2013, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-whistleblower-edward-snowden-on-global-spying-a-910006.html. 109. Patrick Howell O’Neill, “Tor Now Reaches 200,000 Users in Russia,” Daily Dot, June 18, 2014, https

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accessing individuals’ cellphone data, 265–266 Amazon’s involvement with, 180 ARPA’s Command and Control, 50 covert communication, 224–225 cryptography technology, 38–39 Edward Snowden’s activities, 252–254 establishment and mandate of, 190–191 Google’s involvement with, 5 hacking and cracking Tor, 264–265 Patriot Act, 141–142

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230 celebrating their anonymity and secrecy, 209–210 cracking the network, 263 cypherpunks, 203–204 Dread Pirate Roberts and Silk Road, 201–205, 260–262 Edward Snowden’s activities and, 206–211, 252–253 enhancing US government power, 223–224 government hacking and cracking, 263–264 government support for, 213–215 investigation

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

by Bruce Schneier  · 2 Mar 2015  · 598pp  · 134,339 words

activists, consumer advocates, and freethinkers. I focus mainly on the NSA, because this is the secret government agency we know best, because of the documents Edward Snowden released. Corporations and governments alike have an insatiable appetite for our data, and I discuss how the two work together in Chapter 6. I call

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. We may not like to admit it, but we are under mass surveillance. Much of what we know about the NSA’s surveillance comes from Edward Snowden, although people both before and after him also leaked agency secrets. As an NSA contractor, Snowden collected tens of thousands of documents describing many of

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on the US government, not because it’s the worst offender, but because we know something about its activities—mostly thanks to the actions of Edward Snowden. The US national security surveillance state is robust politically, legally, and technically. The documents from Snowden disclosed at least three different NSA programs to collect

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small company, owned and operated by a programmer named Ladar Levison, and it was popular among the tech-savvy. It had half a million users, Edward Snowden amongst them. Soon after Snowden fled to Hong Kong in 2013, Levison received a National Security Letter demanding that the company turn over the master

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was prosecuted in 2011, was forbidden to say the words “whistleblowing” and “overclassification” in his trial. Chelsea Manning was prohibited from using a similar defense. Edward Snowden claims he’s a whistleblower. Many people, including me, agree; others don’t. Secretary of State John Kerry insisted that Snowden should “come back here

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business practices like tenant farming, child labor, and company stores. They’ll look immoral. The start of this movement, more than anything else, will be Edward Snowden’s legacy. I started this book by talking about data as exhaust: something we all produce as we go about our information-age business. I

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each time. Beth Friedman, who has copyedited everything I have written for over a decade, continues to be irreplaceable. I would also like to thank Edward Snowden, whose courageous actions resulted in the global conversation we are now having about surveillance. It’s not an exaggeration to say that I would not

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Greenwald, and Ryan Gallagher (30 Jan 2014), “CSEC used airport Wi-Fi to track Canadian travellers: Edward Snowden documents,” CBC News, http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/csec-used-airport-wi-fi-to-track-canadian-travellers-edward-snowden-documents-1.2517881. display personal information: Alessandro Acquisti, Ralph Gross, and Fred Stutzman (4 Aug 2011

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in quest for total surveillance,” Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/02/nsa-portrait-total-surveillance. Glenn Greenwald (2014), No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the US Surveillance State, Macmillan, chap. 3, http://leaksource.info/2014/07/31/glenn-greenwalds-no-place-to-hide-nsa-documents-excerpts

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specialized software: The code names for these programs are even cooler. And, most interestingly, this top-secret NSA document seems not to have come from Edward Snowden. Leaksource (30 Dec 2013), “NSA’s ANT Division catalog of exploits for nearly every major software/hardware/firmware,” http://leaksource.info/2013/12/30/nsas

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Not Take Place, Oxford University Press, http://thomasrid.org/no-cyber-war. nationwide Internet blackout: James Bamford (13 Aug 2014), “Edward Snowden: The untold story,” Wired, http://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden. 30 countries have cyberwar divisions: Even more have cyberwar capabilities. George Mason University School of Public Policy (Feb 2014), “Cyber

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brutal state police,” Intercept, https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/25/nsas-new-partner-spying-saudi-arabias-brutal-state-police. this gives the NSA access: Edward Snowden (7 Mar 2014), “Statement to the European Parliament,” European Parliament, http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/201403/20140307ATT80674/20140307ATT80674EN.pdf. the NSA spies

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Internet against Democracy, New Press, p. 21, http://books.google.com/books/?id=j_7EkTI8kVQC. the NSA gets direct access: We knew this even before Edward Snowden, from the previous NSA whistleblower Mark Klein. Mark Klein (8 Jun 2006), “Declaration of Mark Klein,” Hepting, et al., v. AT&T, et al. , United

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2013), “Lavabit e-mail service abruptly shut down citing government interference,” Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/08/lavabit-e-mail-shut-down-edward-snowden. Ladar Levison (20 May 2014), “Secrets, lies and Snowden’s email: Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit,” Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree

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Manning was prohibited: David Dishneau (20 Jul 2012), “Manning largely barred from discussing WikiLeaks harm,” Associated Press, http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2018724246_apusmanningwikileaks.html. Edward Snowden claims: The country is fairly evenly divided on this point. Seth Motel (15 Apr 2014), “NSA coverage wins Pulitzer, but Americans remain divided on Snowden

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/15/nsa-coverage-wins-pulitzer-but-americans-remain-divided-on-snowden-leaks. John Kerry insisted that: Jonathan Topaz (28 May 2014), “John Kerry: Edward Snowden a ‘coward … traitor,’” Politico, http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/edward-snowden-coward-john-kerry-msnbc-interview-nsa-107157.html. Hillary Clinton proclaimed: Phoebe Greenwood (4 Jul 2014

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), “Edward Snowden should have right to legal defense in US, says Hillary Clinton,” Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/04/edward-snowden-legal-defence-hillary-clinton-interview. Both comments are examples: Daniel Ellsberg (30 May 2014), “Snowden

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/oct/04/tor-attacks-nsa-users-online-anonymity. “endpoint security is so terrifically weak”: Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden (17 Jun 2013), “Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions,” Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower. Discoverers can sell vulnerabilities: The ethics of this is discussed here. Serge Egelman

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://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2028152. NSA regularly exploits: Lawrence Lessig (20 Oct 2014), “Institutional corruption and the NSA: Lawrence Lessig interviews Edward Snowden at Harvard Law,” LeakSourceInfo/YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=DksIFG3Skb4. Bermuda phone system: Ryan Devereaux, Glenn Greenwald, and Laura Poitras (19 May 2014

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/09/29/did-the-stuxnet-worm-kill-indias-insat-4b-satellite. Internet blackout in Syria: James Bamford (13 Aug 2014), “Edward Snowden: The untold story,” Wired, http://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden. a technique called DNS injection: Anonymous (Jul 2012), “The collateral damage of internet censorship by DNS injection,” ACM SIGCOMM Computer

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state in the US and Europe,” Wake Forest Law Review (forthcoming), http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2349269. Snowden was rebuffed repeatedly: Edward Snowden (7 Mar 2014), “Statement to European Parliament,” http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/201403/20140307ATT80674/20140307ATT80674EN.pdf. Other law enforcement agencies: Merrick Bobb

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. danah boyd (19 Jul 2013), “Whistleblowing is the new civil disobedience: Why Edward Snowden matters,” apophenia, http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2013/07/19/edward-snowden-whistleblower.html. William E. Scheuerman (Sep 2014), “Whistleblowing as civil disobedience: The case of Edward Snowden,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 40, http://psc.sagepub.com/content/40/7/609

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: Yochai Benkler makes the case that the smartest thing the US could do is to give Edward Snowden immunity and let him return to the US. Yochai Benkler (8 Sep 2014), “Want to reform the NSA? Give Edward Snowden immunity,” Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/09/want-to-reform-the-nsa

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-give-edward-snowden-immunity/379612/2. We encourage individuals: US Department of Labor (2014), “The Whistleblower Protection Programs,” http://www

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its European allies,” Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/30/nsa-leaks-us-bugging-european-allies. Glenn Greenwald (2014), No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the US Surveillance State, Macmillan, http://glenngreenwald.net. the NSA spied on the UN: Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, and Holger Stark (26

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