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Snowden's box : trust in the age of surveillance  Cover Image Book Book

Snowden's box : trust in the age of surveillance / by Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge.

Bruder, Jessica, (author.). Maharidge, Dale, (author.).

Summary:

"In the summer of 2013, the world was riveted by Edward Snowden's leak of millions of classified documents detailing the US government's massive and secret electronic surveillance program, in which the NSA had infiltrated tech companies, communication systems, emails and phones to spy on, among others, its own citizens. But this digital-age story had an analog side--Snowden mailed printed-out documents to the journalists Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge, who hid them in barrels, in an outhouse, and in a tree. Thus began an education in surveillance and counter-surveillance for these two experienced reporters, who were nonetheless completely ignorant about the lack of privacy they--and all of us--now have"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781788733434 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 181 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: London ; Verso, 2020.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Parts of this book appeared originally under the same title in Harper's Magazine, May 17, 2017"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Winter nights -- The brittle summer -- The players -- American amnesia -- The panopticon in the parlor -- The tree.
Subject: Snowden, Edward J., 1983-
Electronic surveillance > United States.
Confidential communications > United States.
Journalism > Political aspects > United States > History > 21st century.

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Jessica Bruder is the author of Burning Book and Nomadland, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and Editors' Choice and a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and the Helen Bernstein Book Award. A movie based on the book, starring Frances McDormand, will open in 2019. She teaches at Columbia Journalism School and contributes to The New York Times, New York, Harper's, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and other outlets. She lives in Brooklyn.

Dale Maharidge is the author of ten books, including, most recently, Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1990, has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and held residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell colonies. He teaches at Columbia Journalisn School and lives in New York and Northern California.


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