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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."
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NSA Whistleblower Snowden Seeks to Develop Anti-Surveillance Technologies
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Are you a turtle?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 22 2014, @04:09PM
Why is he starting anew, instead of devoting his primary efforts to Tor, Tahoe-LAF, TAILs, debian, etc.? Surely his efforts are better spent improving existing stuff than starting over with yet another suite of security apps...? Maybe I missed him addressing this (if I did please let me know).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 22 2014, @10:42PM
It needs to run broader and deeper than that; where are our trustworthy electronics and fab plants?