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posted by LaminatorX on Friday February 21 2014, @10:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the Nations-Spying-on-Authors dept.

fleg writes:

"The Guardian is reporting that while the author of The Snowden Files was writing it, paragraphs started self-deleting."

From the article:

By September the book was going well - 30,000 words done. A Christmas deadline loomed. I was writing a chapter on the NSA's close, and largely hidden, relationship with Silicon Valley. I wrote that Snowden's revelations had damaged US tech companies and their bottom line. Something odd happened. The paragraph I had just written began to self-delete. The cursor moved rapidly from the left, gobbling text. I watched my words vanish. When I tried to close my OpenOffice file the keyboard began flashing and bleeping.

[ED Note: Some of author's claims are of course unverifiable, but his insiders view of the early days of the story are interesting even so.]

 
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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by SGT CAPSLOCK on Friday February 21 2014, @11:21AM

    by SGT CAPSLOCK (118) on Friday February 21 2014, @11:21AM (#4234) Journal

    I think the TAB key got stuck down. In his brain.

    It must've auto-completed a hallucination!

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by baldrick on Saturday February 22 2014, @07:16AM

    by baldrick (352) on Saturday February 22 2014, @07:16AM (#4722)

    that would be the ACID TAB key

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