The Snowden files : the inside story of the world's most wanted man /
Luke Harding.
- First Vintage books edition.
- 346 pages ; 21 cm
Originally published in Great Britain by Guardian Books, London, and Faber and Faber Ltd., London, in 2014. Adapted into a film titled Snowden by Oliver Stone in 2016.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Alan Rusbridger -- Prologue: The rendezvous -- TheTrueHOOHA -- Civil disobedience -- The source -- Puzzle palace -- The man in the room -- Scoop! -- The planet's most wanted man -- All the signals of all time -- You've had your fun -- Don't be evil -- Flight -- Der Shitstorm! -- The broom cupboard -- Shoot the messenger -- Epilogue: Exile.
Edward Snowden was a 29-year-old computer genius working for the National Security Agency when he shocked the world by exposing the near-universal mass surveillance programs of the United States government. His whistleblowing has shaken the leaders of nations worldwide, and generated a passionate public debate on the dangers of global monitoring and the threat to individual privacy. Guardian reporter Luke Harding tells Snowden's story -- from the day he left his glamorous girlfriend in Honolulu carrying a hard drive full of secrets, to the weeks of his secret-spilling in Hong Kong, to his battle for asylum and his exile in Moscow. For the first time, Harding brings together the many sources and strands of the story -- touching on everything from concerns about domestic spying to the complicity of the tech sector -- while also placing us in the room with Edward Snowden himself.
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Whistle blowing--United States. Leaks (Disclosure of information)--United States. Domestic intelligence--United States. Electronic surveillance--United States. Computer crimes--United States. POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--International Security. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Political. TRUE CRIME--Espionage. Whistle blowing--United States. Leaks (Disclosure of information)--United States. Domestic intelligence--United States. Electronic surveillance--United States. Computer crimes--United States. Computer crimes. Domestic intelligence. Electronic surveillance. Leaks (Disclosure of information) Whistle blowing. Geheimdienst Whistle-blowing.
Databrott. Electronic surveillance--United States. American espionage.