Edward Snowden - 7/10/2014 Guardian Interview (full)
7/10/2014 Edward Snowden Moscow interview with Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger and intelligence correspondent Ewen MacAskill. Read the full Guardian article here: http://is.gd/gXngtO.
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Edward Snowden poses for a photo during an interview at an undisclosed location in December 2013 in Moscow, Russia.
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Edward Snowden made an impassioned call on Saturday for hackers and technologists to help would-be whistleblowers spill more government secrets.
Speaking via remote Google Hangouts video feed from Russia, Snowden addressed his comments to an audience at this weekend's Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference at the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York.
Arguing that "technology empowers dissent" as well as "democracy," Snowden said that the only way to enable whistleblowers is to give them better tools to pass secrets to journalists, protecting their communications, their identities and preventing them from going to jail for it.
To do that, Snowden said, he needed the help of the hackers, coders and developers gathered in the crowded rooms of the conference, as well as the ones watching via live stream online.
"We the people, you the people, you in this room right now have both the means and capabilities to help build a better future by encoding our rights into the programs and protocols upon which we rely everyday," he said during a conversation with Daniel Ellsberg, who himself became a whistleblower when he leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press in 1971.
Snowden also confirmed, as he hinted in his recent Guardian interview, that he plans to work on building those kinds of technologies, although he didn't give any more details.
His optimistic plea for better, more secure technology was echoed by Ellsberg, who encouraged both people in government as well as those working at corporations to come forward and expose crimes and corruption in other words: to start leaking secrets.
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Ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, exiled in Russia, speaks via video connection to a crowd of hackers in New York City.
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Daniel Ellsberg, who famously released the Pentagon Papers, and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden spoke to a packed crowd of computer experts on Saturday at the Hackers On Planet Earth conference in New York City.
It was a call to digital arms: Create easy-to-use software that lets insiders spill secrets of corporate or government malfeasance to journalists or politicians without getting caught.
"A lot of blood has flowed because people bit their tongues, swallowed their whistles and didn't speak out," Ellsberg said. "You people need to do what you can ... to make it possible for people to do this without spending their life in prison."
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A clampdown on government whistleblowers began during the Bush administration -- and has only intensified. The Obama administration has used the Espionage Act to prosecute whistleblowers who leaked to journalists more than all previous U.S. presidents combined.
"You are the people who can make it possible for democracy to survive that attack on whistleblowers," Ellsberg told the crowd of hackers.
Snowden, in exile in Russia and speaking via a video connection, urged professionals to develop computer programs that hinder mass surveillance by encrypting all communication, thus making it private.
It's a technological answer to a civil rights problem, he explained.
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Ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, exiled in Russia, speaks via video connection to a crowd of hackers in New York City.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
Daniel Ellsberg, who famously released the Pentagon Papers, and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden spoke to a packed crowd of computer experts on Saturday at the Hackers On Planet Earth conference in New York City.
It was a call to digital arms: Create easy-to-use software that lets insiders spill secrets of corporate or government malfeasance to journalists or politicians without getting caught.
"A lot of blood has flowed because people bit their tongues, swallowed their whistles and didn't speak out," Ellsberg said. "You people need to do what you can ... to make it possible for people to do this without spending their life in prison."
Related story: FBI sends agents to Holocaust museum for history lesson
A clampdown on government whistleblowers began during the Bush administration -- and has only intensified. The Obama administration has used the Espionage Act to prosecute whistleblowers who leaked to journalists more than all previous U.S. presidents combined.
"You are the people who can make it possible for democracy to survive that attack on whistleblowers," Ellsberg told the crowd of hackers.
Snowden, in exile in Russia and speaking via a video connection, urged professionals to develop computer programs that hinder mass surveillance by encrypting all communication, thus making it private.
It's a technological answer to a civil rights problem, he explained.
Rights activist: Hundreds of hackers crowded into an auditorium to hear Edward Snowden speak from Moscow. Photo: Channel 4
New York: Edward Snowden, a former US National Security Agency contractor who leaked details of US surveillance programs, called on supporters at a 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."
Hundreds of hackers crowded into an auditorium and overflow rooms to hear him speak from Moscow, where he fled last year.
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Mr Snowden leaked documents that detailed massive US surveillance programs at home and overseas revelations that damaged international relations, outraged some Americans and sparked protests from countries around the globe.
Mr Snowden did not discuss the status of a request he made earlier this month to extend his Russian visa, which expires at the end of July. The US wants Russia to send him home to face criminal charges, including espionage.
At the HOPE hacking conference, several talks detailed approaches for thwarting government surveillance, including a system known as SecureDrop, which is designed to allow people to anonymously leak documents to journalists.
Lawyers with the Electronic Frontier Foundation answered questions about pending litigation with the NSA, including efforts to stop collection of phone records that were disclosed through Mr Snowden's leaks.
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Edward Snowden made an impassioned call on Saturday for hackers and technologists to help would-be whistleblowers spill more government secrets.
Speaking via remote Google Hangouts video feed from Russia, Snowden addressed his comments to an audience at this weekend's Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference at the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York.
Arguing that "technology empowers dissent" as well as "democracy," Snowden said that the only way to enable whistleblowers is to give them better tools to pass secrets to journalists, protecting their communications, their identities and preventing them from going to jail for it.
To do that, Snowden said, he needed the help of the hackers, coders and developers gathered in the crowded rooms of the conference, as well as the ones watching via live stream online.
"We the people, you the people, you in this room right now have both the means and capabilities to help build a better future by encoding our rights into the programs and protocols upon which we rely everyday," he said during a conversation with Daniel Ellsberg, who himself became a whistleblower when he leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press in 1971.
Snowden also confirmed, as he hinted in his recent Guardian interview, that he plans to work on building those kinds of technologies, although he didn't give any more details.
His optimistic plea for better, more secure technology was echoed by Ellsberg, who encouraged both people in government as well as those working at corporations to come forward and expose crimes and corruption in other words: to start leaking secrets.
"We need more whistle blowers [] and you people have to do what you can to make it possible," Ellsberg said, specifically citing projects like SecureDrop, the WikiLeaks-style platform created by the late Aaron Swartz. Ellsberg, however, also warned that there will always be risks in leaking secrets, and people will just need to accept them.
The conversation between Ellsberg and Snowden was highly anticipated, with all the conference rooms at the Pennsylvania Hotel filled with people watching the two leakers on screens put up by the organizers.
However, the discussion wasn't limited to Snowden's call to action. At one point, Snowden said that he had bad short-term memory, and joked that "a lifetime with memes and lolcats will do that to you." Toward the end of the event, addressing the crowd, he said he believed that there are people from the NSA in the [conference event] room right now.
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A Swedish court on Wednesday upheld its detention order on Julian Assange, reaffirming the legal basis for an international warrant for the WikiLeaks founder, which has kept him hiding in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for two years.
One of Mr. Assanges defence lawyers, Per Samuelson, said they would study the judges decision in detail and then write a juicy, toxic appeal to a higher court.
Our legal arguments are solid and powerful, Mr. Samuelson told the Associated Press. That they didnt work could be because the judge didnt give herself enough time to think.
Last month, Mr. Assanges lawyers filed a court petition to repeal the detention order imposed by the Stockholm district court in November, 2010 on the grounds that it cannot be enforced while he is at the embassy and because it is restricting Mr. Assanges civil rights.
Mr. Assange has not been formally indicted in Sweden, but he is wanted for questioning by police over allegations of sexual misconduct and rape involving two women he met during a visit to the Scandinavian country in 2010. He denies the allegations.
Swedish prosecutors have ruled out the possibility of questioning him in London.
Julian Assange is evading justice by seeking refuge at Ecuadors embassy, lead prosecutor Marianne Ny said. He needs to make himself available in Sweden for remaining investigative measures and a potential trial.
Even if Sweden had dropped its case against Mr. Assange, he would face immediate arrest by British police for violating his bail conditions when he fled officials and sought refuge at the embassy. Police have maintained a constant presence outside the embassy since then.
In a meeting last month with reporters at the embassy to mark his second year of hiding, Mr. Assange said he had no intention of going to Sweden because he has no guarantees he wouldnt subsequently be sent to the U.S., where an investigation into WikiLeaks dissemination of hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. documents remains live.
In a video link during the meeting, he also talked to Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino, who told journalists that negotiations with Britain over Mr. Assanges fate were at an impasse and that there would be no attempt to force him back to Sweden.
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Stockholm: A Swedish court began a hearing on Wednesday to determine if an arrest warrant against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for alleged sexual assault should be dropped.
A decision to cancel the warrant would be a step towards enabling the 43-year-old Australian to walk out of the Ecuadoran embassy in London, where he has been holed up for the past two years in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden.
Prosecutors demanded that the warrant should be upheld, Swedish news agency TT reported.
But Assanges lawyer Thomas Olsson said it should be repealed with immediate effect, TT said, adding that the proceedings continued behind closed doors.
The warrant was issued in late 2010 for incidents of rape and sexual molestation that allegedly took place that year claims Assange denies.
Assange sought refuge in Ecuadors embassy in Britain in June 2012 after having exhausted all legal options at British courts to avoid being extradited to Sweden.
He has said he fears that being sent to Sweden would be a pretext for transferring him to the United States, where WikiLeaks sparked an uproar with its publication of thousands of secret documents.
WikiLeaks repeatedly drove the global news agenda with startling revelations of the behind-the-scenes activities of governments around the world.
From confidential assessments by US diplomats of Chinese leaders to revised body counts in Iraq, the WikiLeaks documents provided the public with an unprecedented look under the hood of international politics.
Assanges legal team has argued that Swedish prosecutors have dragged out the case for an unreasonably long period by not interviewing him at the embassy.
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Chelsea Elizabeth Manning, born Bradley Edward Manning, the United States Army soldier convicted last July of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, is set to start a basic treatment for her gender identity condition.
Manning was sentenced to 35 years imprisonment after being found guilty of 17 espionage-related charges, and is eligible for parole after 8 years served. Manning is presently being held in a military lockup at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the Bureau of Prisons rejected the Armys request to accept her transfer to a civilian facility. Thursday Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel approved the Armys recommendation to keep Manning in military custody and start a rudimentary level of gender treatment.
Military prisons, which are generally regarded as being safer than civilian prisons, might not have the knowledge and means to afford Manning proper care, according to defense officials. Though Manning might now be allowed to wear womens undergarments and begin hormone treatment. Which might lead to a decision as to when it becomes time for Manning to be transferred to an all-female facility.
In April, 2010, Manning emailed her then supervisor, Master Sergeant Paul Adkins, explaining her gender dysphoria. She attached a photograph of herself dressed as a woman, and wrote:
This is my problem. Ive had signs of it for a very long time. Its caused problems within my family. I thought a career in the military would get rid of it. Its not something I seek out for attention, and Ive been trying very, very hard to get rid of it by placing myself in situations where it would be impossible. But, its not going away; its haunting me more and more as I get older. Now, the consequences of it are dire, at a time when its causing me great pain in itself
Manning has been a polarizing character during the age of Wikileaks and Edward Snowden. Some have seen her as a patriot, others as a traitor. The gender treatment approval is likewise a polarizing matter:
In May, Mannings lawyer David Coombs commented, It has been almost a year since we first filed our request for adequate medical care. I am hopeful that when the Army says it will start a rudimentary level of treatment that this means hormone replacement therapy. If the military fails to provide hormone therapy, Coombs said he will take appropriate legal action to ensure Chelsea finally receives the medical treatment she deserves and is entitled to under the law.
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