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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, Interesting) by J.J. Dane on Friday February 21 2014, @06:22PM
Most likely somebody on the Guardian IT staff, recognizing a complete computer illiterate decided to run teamviewer on his laptop and mess with his head, as we all have from time to time...
Well, that or cheese in the keyboard.
Seriously though, pieces like this shouldn't make it past the editors.