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Thanks, Edward Snowden: you propelled China to quantum networking leadership
2024-09-10 05:30

Beijing aimed research at immediate needs – like blocking leaks – while the US sought abstract knowledge China has an undeniable lead in quantum networking technology – a state of affairs that...

New NSA Information from (and About) Snowden
2023-10-26 11:00

Interesting article about the Snowden documents, including comments from former Guardian editor Ewen MacAskill. As far as he knows, a copy of the documents is still locked in the New York Times office.

New Revelations from the Snowden Documents
2023-09-21 11:03

Jake Appelbaum's PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. Kind of amazing that that all happened ten years ago.

10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned?
2023-06-07 13:25

Feature The world got a first glimpse into the US government's far-reaching surveillance of American citizens' communications - namely, their Verizon telephone calls - 10 years ago this week when Edward Snowden's initial leaks hit the press. Wyden was one of two US senators who had sounded the alarm about the Obama administration's surveillance programs even before the Snowden leaks came to light.

Snowden Ten Years Later
2023-06-06 11:17

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. He had been working on the Edward Snowden archive for a couple of months, and had a pile of more technical documents that he wanted help interpreting.

Ecuador’s Attempt to Resettle Edward Snowden
2022-06-29 11:19

Someone hacked the Ecuadorian embassy in Moscow and found a document related to Ecuador's 2013 efforts to bring Edward Snowden there. If you remember, Snowden was traveling from Hong Kong to somewhere when the US revoked his passport, stranding him in Russia.

Snowden was right, rules human rights court as it declares UK spy laws broke ECHR
2021-05-25 17:08

Surveillance laws permitting GCHQ to operate its Tempora dragnet mass surveillance system broke the law, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. "The Court considers that, when viewed as a whole, the section 8(4) regime, despite its safeguards... did not contain sufficient 'end-to-end' safeguards to provide adequate and effective guarantees against arbitrariness and the risk of abuse," ruled the European Court of Human Rights's Grand Chamber.

Ed Snowden doesn’t need to worry about being turfed out of Russia any more
2020-10-23 06:34

In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. Based on not much more but these few data points and his knowledge of silicon chip development - he was head of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductors, the company that was to seed Silicon Valley - he said that for the next decade, component counts by area could double every year.

Snowden Granted Permanent Residency in Russia
2020-10-22 13:25

Fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted permanent residency in Russia, his lawyer said on Thursday. Snowden, the former US intelligence contractor who revealed in 2013 that the US government was spying on its citizens, has been living in exile in Russia since the revelations.

US govt wins right to snaffle Edward Snowden's $5m+ book royalties, speech fees – and all future related earnings
2020-10-02 03:56

The US government's Department of Justice has won its multi-million-dollar claim to Edward Snowden's Permanent Record book royalties as well as any future related earnings. A federal district court in eastern Virginia this week ruled that Uncle Sam was entitled to the proceeds of Snowden's bestseller, an estimated $5.2m, and "Any further monies, royalties, or other financial advantages derived by Snowden from Permanent Record." It can also grab Snowden's appearance fees from 56 speeches, thought to exceed $1m. The court came to this conclusion after deciding Snowden broke his non-disclosure agreements with the NSA and CIA. It noted the super-leaker did not offer up his book for a review by official censors nor did he clear speeches on intelligence matters with the US government as required by his employment contract from the time he worked for Uncle Sam.