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“Bad guys are everywhere, good guys are somewhere!”
– The revealingly simplistic headline on NSA documents shared by Glenn Greenwald’s The Intercept which reveal plans for a program to map every internet-connected device worldwide. (via stopprism)
“We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make ourselves as unthreatening, passive, and compliant as possible.”
– Glenn Greenwald (via hipsterlibertarian)
Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras launched their own news site, The Intercept, to post high-profile leaks without worrying about the hassles that can come with publishing through major media outlets. They don’t have to worry that an outside editor will put the kibosh on an Edward Snowden story due to government pressure, for instance. However, that isn’t precluding officials from doing what they can to limit access. The US military has issued directives that ban staff from reading The Intercept due to the classified material that frequently pops up, particularly from a new reported leak source. Workers caught browsing the content might face “long term security issues,” one such memo warns. And that’s if they can read it at all; people in multiple military branches say the site is blocked altogether.
The move isn’t totally surprising, of course. The government regularly puts strict limits on the sites you’re allowed to visit from its offices, and it has a legal obligation to keep classified content off of devices where it doesn’t belong. Even if higher-ups are sympathetic, they’re required to both scrub computers clean and report any visits. Nonetheless, the Intercept ban highlights a certain absurdity to the government’s data policies — it’s barring access to “secret” surveillance details that you can easily read as soon as you leave for home.
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http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/20/us-military-bans-intercept/
Full Disclosure: Wikileaks Says It Will Leak What the Intercept Won’t
“Edward Snowden sacrificed his liberty and his life in order to help people who he thought were being oppressed. … And the fact that this individual with no power was knowingly risking everything in his life for a political cause, and really ended up changing the world, I think is a remarkable lesson for everybody. It’s certainly something that’s certainly inspired me and has shaped how I think about things, and probably will for the rest of my life.”
Why did Snowden decide to leak the NSA documents? Journalist Glenn Greenwald explains in an extended Democracy Now! interview.
“It’s just simply the fact that [the NSA does] not think anybody should be able to communicate anywhere on the Earth without them being able to invade it.”
Pulitzer Awarded to The Guardian and Washington Post for Coverage on Snowden’s NSA LeaksThe Guardian and the Washington Post have been awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for their reporting on the NSA surveillance that the leaked documents from Edward Snowden brought to light.
The award recognized Glenn Greenwald, Barton Gellman, Laura Poitras and Ewan MacAskill for their reporting on the topic.
It has been about 10 months since The Guardian and the Washington Post published stories on the NSA’s PRISM program and its widespread data collection, causing privacy concerns in the tech community as well as much of the world. Soon after, Snowden, a former CIA employee and NSA contractor, claimed responsibility for the leaked documents. Read more…
From Vanity Fair’s Snowden Exclusive: A Tense Few Days in Hong Kong
Inside a hotel room in Hong Kong, Edward Snowden shared secrets with journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Ewen MacAskill—and then disappeared.
(Via the Huffington Post)
NEW YORK – Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, two American journalists whohave been at the forefront of reporting on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, will return to the United States on Friday for the first time since revelations of worldwide surveillance broke.
Greenwald and Poitras, currently in Berlin, will attend Friday’s Polk Awards ceremony in New York City. The two journalists are sharing the prestigious journalism award with The Guardian’s Ewen MacAskill and with Barton Gellman, who has led The Washington Post’s reporting on the NSA documents. Greenwald and Poitras interviewed Snowden last June in Hong Kong as he first revealed himself.
In an interview with The Huffington Post, Greenwald said he’s motivated to return because “certain factions in the U.S. government have deliberately intensified the threatening climate for journalists.”
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