| Title | I Showed Leaked NSA Slides at Purdue, So Feds Demanded the Video Be Destroyed | |
| Date | Friday October 09 2015, @09:01PM | |
| Author | n1 | |
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| from the presentation-never-happened dept. | ||
On September 24, I gave a keynote presentation at Purdue University about the NSA, Edward Snowden, and national security journalism in the age of surveillance. It was part of the excellent Dawn or Doom colloquium, which I greatly enjoyed. The organizers live-streamed my talk and promised to provide me with a permalink to share.
After unexplained delays, I received a terse e-mail from the university last week. Upon advice of counsel, it said, Purdue "will not be able to publish your particular video" and will not be sending me a copy. The conference hosts, once warm and hospitable, stopped replying to my e-mails and telephone calls. I don't hold it against them. Very likely they are under lockdown by spokesmen and lawyers.
[...] It turns out that Purdue has wiped all copies of my video and slides from university servers, on grounds that I displayed classified documents briefly on-screen. A breach report was filed with the university's Research Information Assurance Officer, also known as the Site Security Officer, under the terms of Defense Department Operating Manual 5220.22-M. I am told that Purdue briefly considered, among other things, whether to destroy the projector I borrowed, lest contaminants remain.
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.
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