Edward Snowden: Permanent Record (2019, Holt & Company, Henry)
352 pages
English language
Published Nov. 20, 2019 by Holt & Company, Henry.
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 …
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.
I also grew up in a government town in the early days of home computers & the internet. Perhaps if I had stumbled across hacking I'd have ended up in a similar role to him, though I doubt I'd have his gumption to expose the gross overreach of the security services. Their capability was (and remains) alarming.
Reading time 9 days, 37 pages/day
Content warning Posible Spoiler
“Vigilancia Permanente” es un libro que no sólo nos enseña sobre la importancia de la privacidad y la vigilancia en la era digital, sino que también nos recuerda la importancia de proteger nuestros datos personales. Es crucial que los ciudadanos tomen medidas para proteger su privacidad en línea, utilizando aplicaciones y programas de seguridad y optando por programas europeos en lugar de estadounidenses siempre que sea posible. Solo así podremos garantizar que nuestros derechos a la privacidad y la libertad en línea sean protegidos en el futuro.
5 stars for any book that mentions CHOPLIFTER!
Bra om man vill förstå hans drivkrafter och få hans berättelse om hur det gick till. Knepigast i berättelsen är vad FBI utsatte hans flickvän för. Det är som att dessa myndigheter har friheten att trakassera folk och göra lite vad de känner för utan att det får konsekvenser.
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