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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: 1) by tsqr on Friday February 21 2014, @11:39PM
Actually, it IS pretty crazy, given the circumstances. From the paragraph in TFA preceding his description of the "hack": "Still, back at my home in Hertfordshire I took a few precautions. I worked offline." So, apparently NSA has figured out a way to remotely hack a computer that's offline.
(Score: 1) by tibman on Saturday February 22 2014, @12:09AM
Jumping air-gaps via speaker/microphone is an actual thing now. Pretty creepy and awesome : )
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