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NSA Whistleblower Snowden Seeks to Develop Anti-Surveillance Technologies

posted by azrael on Tuesday July 22 2014, @01:15AM   
from the game-of-leapfrog dept.

crutchy writes:

Edward Snowden has called on supporters at the HOPE hacking conference to develop easy-to-use technologies to subvert government surveillance programs.

Mr Snowden, who addressed conference attendees on Saturday via video link from Moscow, said he intends to devote much of his time to promoting such technologies, including ones that allow people to communicate anonymously and encrypt their messages.

"You in this room, right now, have both the means and the capability to improve the future by encoding our rights into programs and protocols by which we rely every day," he told the New York City conference, known as Hackers on Planet Earth, or HOPE. "That is what a lot of my future work is going to be involved in."

• Ah ha! Now we see his true motiveAh ha! Now we see his true motive (Score: 4, Funny) by prospectacle on Tuesday July 22 2014, @03:41AM

  by prospectacle (3422) on Tuesday July 22 2014, @03:41AM (#72132) Journal

  So working for the CIA and the NSA, stealing classified documents, fleeing the country and living in exile has all been one big marketing campaign for SnowSoft Enterprises(TM), specialising in data security and encryption.

  Well played, sir.

  I'll bet he gives the software away for free, too, just to maintain the charade.

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• Re:Ah ha! Now we see his true motive(Score: 2, Insightful) by anubi on Tuesday July 22 2014, @05:13AM

  by anubi (2828) on Tuesday July 22 2014, @05:13AM (#72154) Journal

  Snowden is one of those people who would take a bullet for a neighbor... and for all practical purposes he has.
  
  When I see something I perceive as unjust, it gets my goat. Most of the time I am too obedient to follow through with being a loose cannon, but push hard enough and I will go off. He did. Its part of being human. A lot of us simply cannot tolerate seeing others misused, animals abused, children molested, or other injustices we see all the time around us.
  
  We all seem to pray for a God to send a lightning bolt down to do the dirty work. However I have yet to see that happen. Somebody has to do something to stop it.
  
  There are the folk who can watch a woman getting raped in the street and not lift a finger to even call the police. Not all of us are that callous and uncaring.
  
  I will betcha if Snowden releases his stuff, it will be clean as a whistle and open source, and he will be literally asking anyone to find a hole in it so it can be fixed.

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• Re:Ah ha! Now we see his true motive(Score: 2) by davester666 on Tuesday July 22 2014, @06:27AM

  by davester666 (155) on Tuesday July 22 2014, @06:27AM (#72166)

  ...free...with ads served by Google!(tiny print: warning everything you do with this program may be tracked by Google)

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