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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: 2, Funny) by DECbot on Friday February 21 2014, @06:10PM
You know, I think NSA hacked my PC once.... and then I realized that I had rested my coffee cup on the HOME/END/PAGE UP/PAGE DOWN INSERT/DELETE keys and in my fit of terror, knocked the coffee up over, splashing coffee across the entire keyboard. Once dowsed in coffee, it started flashing and my pc beeped continuously until I unplugged it. That coffee saved my ass from the NSA--who bribed the keyboard manufacturers to put back doors in their products. That's why I now use a homemade key-er and I tap out Morris code to a homemade Morris code to ASCII translator I created from an Excel macro.
But I'm starting to think my mouse might be hacked too. It always moves on its own when the subway train passes overhead. That's when it's communicating back to its masters.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base