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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.]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by bucc5062 on Friday February 21 2014, @11:56AM
How hard is it to clean now and then. Is there some cool factor to pointing out that "hey guys, we're slobs". I wonder if the cleaned themselves or did they enjoy the stench of sweaty humans living out some Suspense novelists wet dream. On one hand I am grateful to Edward and the Guardian for shining the light on some ugly activities by the NSA (and our Congress). Of course, people got to make a buck and Greenwald is slurping, nay gulping from the trough.
This article was Clancy on a bad day. I think he would have deleted most of it and started over. Hell, even if that happened to me^H^H^H^H^H, wait, what just happ...@#$h#
The more things change, the more they look the same
(Score: 1) by LaminatorX on Friday February 21 2014, @12:17PM
Now I really wish I'd let the ED Note trail off mid sentence.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Open4D on Friday February 21 2014, @02:46PM
Well, Greenwald is presumably doing okay out of the whole affair [theguardian.com], but in this case I would say it's this "Snowden Files" book by Luke Harding that is probably most guilty of sensationalism / bandwagon-jumping / fast-buck-making. And TFA doesn't pretend to be anything other than a plug for the book.