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NSA Whistleblower Snowden Seeks to Develop Anti-Surveillance Technologies

posted by azrael on Tuesday July 22 2014, @01:15AM   Printer-friendly
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."

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 22 2014, @04:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 22 2014, @04:17PM (#72332)

    Not sure that's the way to go. I feel your frustration though. Anon does things similar to what you describe, and they sometimes get it wrong, and destroy innocent people's lives. I think if we go on the offensive by supporting eff.org, aclu, etc., in trying to hold liars before Congress accountable so they do jail time, holding people who violate the law accountable by throwing them in jail, etc., is effort better spent than technological vigilantism. I don't want more surveillance, I want less, even if we "think" we're surveilling the right people to "treat them a lesson".