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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 jonh on Saturday February 22 2014, @12:13AM
Maybe the NSA did delete his paragraphs while he was watching -- with the expectation that he'd go public with these ridiculous-sounding revelations, and damage his reputation in the process. An espionage double-counter-bluff?
(Or maybe I just made that all up? I don't know who to trust any more...)
(Score: 1) by Richard Nixon on Saturday February 22 2014, @12:48AM
Your idea is much more sound than the guy above you. Attempting to discredit the free press is a tricky business...