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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @03:15PM
But there's a good reason to suspect it was not the NSA or GHCQ deleting his text: They would not have done it that way. I'm sure if they wanted to destroy his text, they would instead have chosen a less suspicious way. For example they could have caused his computer to simply crash, and when he rebooted, he'd find out that apparently the crash corrupted the file (or maybe even the complete hard disk) to the point that it could no longer be recovered.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday February 21 2014, @06:45PM
IF the intent was to destroy the text then yes, they would not have done it that way. OTOH if they wanted him to freak out and stop writing...
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by dmc on Friday February 21 2014, @08:13PM
Even better from their ratfucking perspective than getting him to freak out and stop writing might be to get him to freak out and write so freakily that he discredits himself. Remember that episode of the X-Files where they spiked Moulder's apartment tap-water with LSD? :)