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Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online??a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet's conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.… (més)
Usuari anònim: Another person's point of view while the stories were starting to come together and being written.
Barton does say he was contacted before Glenn but Ed does say Glenn was contacted before Barton.
Un bon llibre per conèixer les motivacions que van portar l'Edward Snowden a ser el personatge públic que revelaria tot el sistema d'espionatge que el govern dels EUA estava aplicant a la seva ciutadania a través dels sistemes de la NSA. ( )
Snowden liefert einzigartige Einsichten in das Innenleben amerikanischer Geheimdienste: ein Psychogramm der Mitarbeiter/innen und eine Analyse der Strukturen. Beides verbindet der 36-Jährige mit seiner eigenen ungewöhnlichen Geschichte. […] Edward Snowden ist ein Vorbild dafür, was es heißt, sich für Rechtsstaatlichkeit und die eigenen Werte zu engagieren.
In the aftermath of 9/11, he joined the US army because he "wanted to show I wasn't just a brain in a jar", and had he not suffered stress fractures during training, he would have become a special forces soldier. Snowden says his greatest regret was his own "reflexive, unquestioning support" for the decision to wage war after the attacks, and how it led to "the promulgation of secret policies, secret laws, secret courts and secret wars". He found out about this parallel world working for different intelligence agencies as a contractor tasked with upgrading their antediluvian IT systems. As the spies pivoted towards cyber espionage, the top brass missed something quite important: "The CIA didn't quite understand. The computer guy knows everything, or rather can know everything." Snowden, it seems, was in a position to access their crown jewels.
[...] He eventually decided his loyalties lay not with the agencies he was working for, but the public they were set up to protect. He felt ordinary citizens were being betrayed, and he had a duty to explain how.
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My name is Edward Joseph Snowden.
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I still struggle to accept the sheer magnitude and speed of the change, from an America that sought to define itself by a calculated and performative respect for dissent to a security state whose militarized police demand obedience, drawing their guns and issuing the order for total submission now heard in every city: “Stop resisting.”
The 2008 crisis, which laid so much of the foundation for the crises of populism that a decade later would sweep across Europe and America, helped me realize that something that is devastating for the public can be, and often is, beneficial to the elites. This was a lesson that the US government would confirm for me in other contexts, time and again, in the years ahead.
...the companies themselves are American and are subject to American law. The problem is, they’re also subject to classified American policies that pervert law and permit US government to surveil virtually every man, woman, and child who has ever touched a computer or picked up a phone.
I worked, I was sure of it, for the good guys, and that made me a good guy, too.
...Hiroshima...Nagasaki...Those places are holy places, whose memorials honor the two hundred thousand incinerated and the countless poisoned by fallout while reminding us of technology’s amorality.
If government surveillance was having the effect of turning the citizen into a subject, at the mercy of state power, then corporate surveillance was turning the consumer into a product, which corporations sold to other corporations, data brokers, and advertisers.
A decade later, it had become clear, to me at least, that the repeated evocations of terror by the political class were not a response to any specific threat but a cynical attempt to turn terror into a permanent danger that required permanent vigilance enforced by unquestionable authority.
Arab Spring...They were declaring that in a truly just society the people were not answerable to the government, the government was answerable to the people. Although each crowd in each city, even on each day, seemed to have its own specific motivation and its own specific goals, they all had one thing in common: a rejection of authoritarianism, a recommitment to the humanitarian principle that an individual’s rights are inborn and inalienable.
It’s this clash, between the authoritarian and the liberal democratic, that I believe to be the major ideological conflict of my time—not some concocted, prejudiced notion of an East-West divide, or of a resurrected crusade against Christiandom or Islam.
I liked reading the Constitution partially because its ideas are great, partially because its prose is good, but really because it freaked out my coworkers. In an office where everything you had printed had to be thrown into a shredder after you were done with it, someone would always be intrigued by the presence of hardcopy pages lying on a desk. They’d amble over to ask, “What have you got there?””The Constitution.”Then they’d make a face and back away slowly.
America’s Founders were skilled engineers of political power, particularly attuned to the perils posed by legal subterfuge and the temptations of the presidency toward exercising monarchical authority. To forestall such eventualities, they designed a system, laid out in the Constitution’s first three articles, that established the US government in three coequal branches, each supposed to provide checks and balances to the others. But when it came to protecting the privacy of American citizens in the digital age, each of these branches failed in its own way, causing the entire system to halt and catch fire.
A “whistleblower” in my definition, is a person who through hard experience has concluded that their life inside an institution has become incompatible with the principles developed in—and the loyalty owed to—the greater society outside it, to which that institution should be accountable.
...the media, the de facto fourth branch of the US government, protected by the Bill of Rights...
...I was resolved to bring to light a single, all-encompassing fact: that my government had developed and deployed a global system of mass surveillance without the knowledge or consent of its citizenry.
...just because I shared my knowledge didn’t mean that anyone had to share my opinion
I wasn’t wild about the idea of taking thousands of pictures of my computer screen in the middle of a top secret facility.
I’m going to refrain from publishing how exactly I went about my own writing—my own copying and encryption—so that the NSA will still be standing tomorrow.
I was storing the NSA’s storage, making an off-site backup of evidence of the IC’s abuses.
Breaking a 128-bit key would take 2 to the 64th power times longer than a day, or fifty million billion years. By that time, I might even be pardoned.
Analysts understood that the government would never publicly prosecute them, because you can’t exactly convict someone of abusing your secret system of mass surveillance if you refuse to admit the existence of the system itself.
The Russian government must have decided that it would be better off without me and the media swarm clogging up the country’s major airport. On August 1 it granted me temporary asylum.
The year 2016 was a landmark in tech history, the first year since the invention of the Internet that more Web traffic was encrypted than unencrypted.
Any elected government that relies on surveillance to maintain control of a citizenry that regards surveillance as anathema to democrat has effectively ceased to be a democracy
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Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online??a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet's conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.
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