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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLive Q&A with Edward Snowden: Thursday 23rd January, 8pm GMT, 3pm EST
http://www.freesnowden.is/asksnowden/Edward Snowden will be answering questions submitted by the public on his official support site, freesnowden.is, this Thursday 23 January at 8pm GMT, 3pm EST. The support site is run by The Courage Foundation and is the only endorsed Snowden Defence Fund.
This is the first Snowden live chat since June 2013 and will last for an hour starting at 8pm GMT, 3pm EST. Questions can be submitted on twitter on the day of the event using the #AskSnowden hashtag. Edward Snowdens responses will appear at http://www.freesnowden.is/asksnowden
The live chat comes exactly a week after US President Barack Obama gave an address in response to the public concerns raised by Edward Snowdens revelations about US surveillance practices. In the live chat, Edward Snowden is expected to give his first reaction to the Presidents speech.
Courage (formerly the Journalistic Source Protection Defence Fund) is a trust, audited by accountants Derek Rothera & Company in the UK, for the purpose of providing legal defence and campaign aid to journalistic sources. It is overseen by an unrenumerated committee of trustees. Edward Snowden is its first recipient.
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)solarhydrocan
(551 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)Nice graphic but Snowden is not exactly the poster boy for following the point it's trying to make.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]
solarhydrocan
(551 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)He saw a legal warrant that he decided was tyrannical and a violation of the 4th Amendment. Reasonable people disagree on that. Problem with Snowden is that he was so introvertive, he could not see things from a different perspective.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]
solarhydrocan
(551 posts)FORBES 12/16/2013 Andy Greenberg
An NSA Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'A Genius Among Geniuses'
The black sweatshirt sold by the civil libertarian Electronic Frontier Foundation featured a parody of the National Security Agencys logo, with the traditional key in an eagles claws replaced by a collection of AT&T cables, and eavesdropping headphones covering the menacing birds ears. Snowden wore it regularly to stay warm in the air-conditioned underground NSA Hawaii Kunia facility known as the tunnel.
His coworkers assumed it was meant ironically. And a geek as gifted as Snowden could get away with a few irregularities
Months after Snowden leaked tens of thousands of the NSAs most highly classified documents to the media, the former intelligence contractor has stayed out of the limelight, rarely granting interviews or sharing personal details. A 60 Minutes episode Sunday night, meanwhile, aired NSAs officials descriptions of Snowden as a malicious hacker who cheated on an NSA entrance exam and whose work computers had to be destroyed after his departure for fear he had infected them with malware.
But an NSA staffer who contacted me last month and asked not to be identifiedand whose claims we checked with Snowden himself via his ACLU lawyer Ben Wizneroffered me a very different, firsthand portrait of how Snowden was seen by his colleagues in the agencys Hawaii office: A principled and ultra-competent, if somewhat eccentric employee, and one who earned the access used to pull off his leak by impressing superiors with sheer talent.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/12/16/an-nsa-coworker-remembers-the-real-edward-snowden-a-genius-among-geniuses/
randome
(34,845 posts)He tricked his coworkers into giving him their passwords. He abandoned his girlfriend without a backward glance. He never finished anything in life, including high school. If that doesn't paint a picture of an introvert, I don't know what does.
As for his 'genius' credentials, apparently neither he nor Greenwald understood that PRISM was simply a way for companies to securely transfer data obtained with warrants. It never occurred to him that it might be a secure FTP server.
Of course, everyone at Google, Microsoft, etc. could all be lying about this but...no.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Question 2: Ahh... Hawaii...
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
snooper2
(30,151 posts)He should know that off the top of his snowy head, but I doubt it LOL
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)There's nothing very esoteric about it.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)Whether he's good with mnemonics or not, whether he tries using /31's or not, and irrespective of his knowledge of split horizon on NBMA networks, he seemed capable of getting the documents and distributing them. I think that was his aim.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)I've been learning WebRTC on the side myself. Supposed to be the next big thing-
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)...but it's a financial institution, so we don't get anything too cutting edge through the door--routers and switches and firewalls (oh my!), and more videoconferencing than I would've hoped for. Here's hoping I'm not replaced by 3 Python scripts.