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Being hacked while writing The Snowden Files.

posted by LaminatorX on Friday February 21 2014, @10:30AM   
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.]

• Re:Happens to me (Score: 2, Informative) by dmc on Friday February 21 2014, @08:09PM

  by dmc (188) on Friday February 21 2014, @08:09PM (#4516)

  Click here for a pretty detailed view of the talk. If you want to know about the USB technology that I'm specifically referring to, load up that page and do a find on the word "ANGRYNEIGHBOR". Go to the second instance and it brings you right to slide he was referencing.

  Here are my favorite links for that kind of info-

  http://cryptome.org/2014/01/nsa-codenames.htm [cryptome.org]

  http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog- reveals-nsa-has-back-doors-for-numerous-devices-a- 940994.html [spiegel.de]

  http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/nsa-hacki ng-catalogue/ [wired.com]

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