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Snowden's box : trust in the age of surveillance / by Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge.
"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. |
Search for related items by subject
| 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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"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 atree. 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"-- - Random House, Inc.
Two behind-the-scenes players in the edward snowden story reflect on the meaning of snowdenâs revelations in our age of surveillance
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One day in the spring of 2013, a box appeared outside a fourth-floor apartment door in Brooklyn, New York. The recipient, who didnât know the sender, only knew she was supposed to bring this box to a friend, who would ferry it to another friend. This was Edward Snowdenâs boxâmaterials proving that the U.S. government had built a massive surveillance apparatus and used it to spy on its own people--and the friend on the end of this chain was filmmaker Laura Poitras.
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Thus the biggest national security leak of the digital era was launched via a remarkably analog network, the US Postal Service. This is just one of the odd, ironic details that emerges from the story of how Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge, two experienced journalists but security novices (and the friends who received and ferried the box) got drawn into the Snowden story as behind-the-scenes players. Their initially stumbling, increasingly paranoid, and sometimes comic efforts to help bring Snowdenâs leaks to light, and ultimately, to understand their significance, unfold in an engrossing narrative that includes emails and diary entries from Poitras. This is an illuminating story on the status of transparency, privacy, and trust in the age of surveillance.
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With an appendix suggesting what citizens and activists can do to protect privacy and democracy.
