Glenn Greenwald, journalist who worked with Edward Snowden, on The Exchange with Amanda Lang
It has been over a year since a man named Edward Snowden unveiled government secrets that would change the world. Snowden worked as a contractor for the U-S National Security Agency, charged ...
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DSHS Students conduct a Congressional Hearing into the actions of Edward Snowden and surveillance by the NSA.
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NSA Data Surveillance Documentary
This is a documentary on the surveillance by the NSA of U.S. citizens and many other people and politicians around the world. Much of the video focuses on Edward Snowden and his actions and...
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HONG KONG - 2013: (EDITOR'S NOTE: ONLY AVAILABLE TO NEWS ORGANISATIONS AND NOT FOR ENTERTAINMENT USE) In this handout photo provided by The Guardian, Edward Snowden speaks during an interview in Hong Kong. Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA, revealed details of top-secret surveillance conducted by the United States' National Security Agency regarding telecom data. (Photo by The Guardian via Getty Images) | Handout via Getty Images
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GENEVA, March 6 (Reuters) - Edward Snowden has made a public appeal for Switzerland to grant him asylum, saying he would like to return to live in Geneva, where he once worked undercover for the Central Intelligence Agency.
The fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor, wanted by Washington for leaking details of U.S. mass surveillance programs, spoke from Moscow by video link to a Geneva audience after a viewing of "Citizenfour," an Oscar-winning documentary about his case.
"I would love to return to Switzerland, some of my favorite memories are from Geneva. It's a wonderful place," he told the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights on Thursday night, where he was asked about seeking asylum.
"I do think Switzerland would be a sort of great political option because it has a history of neutrality," he said, praising its multicultural diversity and human rights record.
Snowden said he had appealed to 21 countries, "the majority in central and Western Europe," for asylum after the United States canceled his passport and he was stopped from going to Ecuador.
"Unfortunately no country said yes," he said, blaming "political interference" by the Obama administration.
Snowden was accredited to the U.S. diplomatic mission in Geneva from March 2007 to February 2009, tapping communications systems.
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Edward Snowden Wants Switzerland To Grant Him Asylum
Summary:The former NSA contractor turned whistleblower said during a Reddit question-and-answer session that the leaks have also improved security and encryption in Silicon Valley.
Edward Snowden answers questions on Reddit (Image: Imgur/Reddit)
Edward Snowden has just one regret.
It's not that he threw Obama's second term in office under the bus by disclosing the vast surveillance by the National Security Agency. Nor did he regret that he condemned himself to the bowels of Russia. (He rightfully pointed out the weather in Moscow has been "warmer than the east coast" this past week, where temperatures have been close to zero.)
It was that he didn't "come forward sooner" with what he knew.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald and filmmaker Laura Poitras, and former NSA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden answered questions from the Reddit community on Monday in an hour-long "ask me anything."
The question-and-answer session comes hours before the Poitras documentary, "Citizenfour," broadcasts on HBO. The film, which documents the first few days the whistleblower goes on the run in Hong Kong and the immediate aftermath of the leaks, won an Oscar on Sunday for best documentary feature.
Here are select highlights from the event, edited for clarity:
Snowden, months after he was granted political asylum in Russia, asked the country's president Vladimir Putin if his government spies on its citizens. What proof do we have that Putin is being honest?
Snowden: "There's not, and that's part of the problem world-wide. We can't just reform the laws in one country, wipe our hands, and call it a day. We have to ensure that our rights aren't just being protected by letters on a sheet of paper somewhere, or those protections will evaporate the minute our communications get routed across a border. The only way to ensure the human rights of citizens around the world are being respected in the digital realm is to enforce them through systems and standards rather than policies and procedures."
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Edward Snowden: "Some of my favourite memories are from Geneva." Photo: AFP
Geneva: Edward Snowden has made a public appeal for Switzerland to grant him asylum, saying he would like to return to live in Geneva, where he once worked undercover for the Central Intelligence Agency.
The fugitive former US spy agency contractor, wanted by Washington for leaking details of US mass surveillance program, spoke from Moscow by video link to a Geneva audience after a viewing of Citizenfour, an Oscar-winning documentary about his case.
"I would love to return to Switzerland, some of my favourite memories are from Geneva. It's a wonderful place," he told the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights, where he was asked about seeking asylum.
The whistleblower says Geneva is "a wonderful place". Photo:
"I do think Switzerland would be a sort of great political option because it has a history of neutrality," he said, praising its multicultural diversity and human rights record.
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Snowden said he had appealed to 21 countries, "the majority in central and Western Europe", for asylum after the United States cancelled his passport and he was stopped from going to Ecuador.
"Unfortunately no country said yes," he said, blaming "political interference" by the Obama administration.
Snowden was accredited to the US diplomatic mission in Geneva from March 2007 to February 2009, tapping communications systems.
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Snowden Advocates for Encryption at the Harvard Data Privacy Symposium
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#39;FREAK #39; Alert: Mega Encryption Bug Now Affects Microsoft Windows
#39;FREAK #39; Alert: Mega Encryption Bug Now Affects Microsoft Windows Microsoft has issued a security warning about a bug that could let attackers spy on supposedly secure communications. Called...
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Summary:The Cryptocat developer's new team aims to get easy file and message encryption into everyone's hands, which could give Gmail and Dropbox (and the NSA) a run for their money.
Peerio's core development team, including cryptography head Nadim Kobeissi (back-left) (Image: Peerio)
NEW YORK -- Encryption to most people either just happens, or it doesn't. A select few have the skills to fiddle with keys, code, and command prompts needed to secure emails and documents, but the vast majority rely on tech titans like Google and Dropbox instead to do the hard work.
In the aftermath of the global surveillance leaks, Nadim Kobeissi wants to give ordinary people on the street the keys to their own kingdoms: by making encryption easier to use.
The 24-year-old developer, now living in Paris for his PhD program, spent most of his formative teenage years working on end-to-end secure chat client Cryptocat, as well as miniLock, a passphrase-based encryption standard. A little less than a year ago, Montreal-based tech investor Vincent Drouin tasked him to forge something out of the fire of his previous successes. After Kobeissi carefully crafted an eight-person team, the Peerio app was born.
Peerio is an encrypted messaging and file storage app for Windows, Mac, and the Chrome browsers that takes the likes of Gmail and Outlook, HipChat, and Dropbox to task. The app puts its users in the privacy driving seat, clearly marking for the lay user when something is encrypted.
On Monday, the team unveiled a significant update: a revamped, cleaner user interface, improved synchronization across devices, and an early-April timeframe for its mobile apps. Since launch, the company has seen extraordinary growth, from 50 users in initial testing to 15,000 users in a month after its mid-January debut.
"We're offering all the tools you need to get work done, but also doing so with a level of encryption that most services just simply do not bother to implement," Kobeissi said on the phone.
The app aims to be simple. According to Kobeissi, "There's nothing new to learn," Indeed, the user interface is easy -- with features like Gmail's "compose" window and Dropbox's drag-and-drop functionality included. The user interface and overall experience is a particular focus for the team. Security and privacy shouldn't be difficult, but encryption software has a bad rap for making it so.
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Summary:UPDATED: The search giant will let phone makers decide whether or not to enable encryption-by-default because of performance issues on older devices.
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Phones and tablets running Android "Lollipop" will not have device encryption switched on by default, despite an earlier promise by the software maker.
Ars Technica first reported Monday the company's move to reverse its policy. Although all phones and tablets running Android "Lollipop" will support encryption, it will be the responsibility of the phone or tablet maker to decide how to implement it.
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In an email to ZDNet, Google confirmed the decision. Instead, encryption by default will be reserved for "future versions" of the mobile operating system.
Update: A Google spokesperson confirmed the reason in an email was "due to performance issues on some Android partner devices," adding: "We remain firmly committed to encryption because it helps keep users safe and secure on the web."
Although all phones and tablets running Android "Lollipop" will support encryption, it will be the responsibility of the phone or tablet maker in how to implement it.
For now, only Google's-own Nexus 6 phone and Nexus 9 tablet have device encryption enabled by default when the device is first switched on.
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