This week 10 years ago, Edward Snowden exposed the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance of Americans. The US government responded with ruthless persecution — just one egregious example in the NSA’s long, sordid history of fiercely guarding its secrecy.
Source: Ten Years Ago, Edward Snowden Blew the Whistle on the US’s Most Secretive Spy Agency
An appeals court recently ruled a mass surveillance program exposed by Edward Snowden was illegal. It’s only the latest example of Washington admitting Snowden had, despite being continuously denounced by pundits and politicians, done the right thing by leaking information about the government’s massive surveillance operations.
Over and Over and Over Again, History Has Vindicated Edward Snowden
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/3/17/snowden_docs_expose_how_the_nsa
NSA has masqueraded as a fake Facebook server to infect a target’s computer and exfiltrate files from a hard drive.
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