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Edward Snowden speaks at SXSW.

With lawmakers slow to pass legislation curbing NSA surveillance, its up to the technology community to step in and devise solutions that will better protect online communications from snoops, said Edward Snowden, speaking today from Moscow at the South by Southwest conference in Austin.

[T]he people who are in the room at Austin right now, theyre the folks who can really fix things, who can enforce our rights for technical standards even when Congress hasnt yet gotten to the point of creating legislation that protect our rights in the same manner, he said. Theres a policy response that needs to occur, but theres also a technical response that needs to occur. And its the makers, the thinkers, the developing community that can really craft those solutions to make sure were safe.

The massive surveillance being done by the NSA and other governments has created an adversarial internet, he said, a sort of a global free-fire zone for governments, thats nothing that we ever asked [for]; its not what we wanted. Its something we need to protect against.

[T]heyre setting fire to the future of the internet. And the people who are in this room now, you guys are all the firefighters. And we need you to help us fix this.

One solution he highlighted, that would make it more difficult for the U.S. and other governments to conduct passive surveillance, is the implementation of end-to-end encryption that would protect communications from user to user, rather than as its currently done by Google and other services, which only encrypt the communication from user to service, leaving it vulnerable to collection from the service provider.

End-to-end encryption makes mass surveillance impossible at the network level, he says, and provides a more constitutionally protected model of surveillance, because it forces the government to target the endpoints the individual users through hacking, rather than conduct mass collection.

Snowden, speaking through a Google Hangout session, masking his whereabouts through seven online proxies, appeared onscreen sitting in front of a backdrop of the Constitutions First Amendment likely a sly reference to a Kansas lawmakers attempt to bar Snowdens free speech by asking the conference organizers last week to cancel his talk.

Snowdens talk was broadcast online to more than 40,000 viewers as well as to a packed house and overflow rooms in Austin.

The interview was conducted by Ben Wizner, one of Snowdens attorneys and director of the ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, and Wizners colleague Chris Soghoian, principal technologist and a senior policy analyst for the same project.

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This will be a bit controversial as famed NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden himself is a controversial figure. Some say hes a hero, others say hes a villain and others say the truth is somewhere in between. Given the nature of what Snowden acquired and disclosed, we must be careful not to assume that every intelligence failure that comes along has something to do with Snowden. However, world events in recent weeks have piled together some circumstances that bear review. Russia has invaded Crimea, yet according to a report in the Daily Beast prior to the invasion, US intelligence concluded that Russia would not openly invadethe Crimean Peninsula or the Ukraine itself. Calling it a bluff, the article stated:

A senior U.S. intelligence official told The Daily Beast that the timing of the military exercise, coming only days after the Ukrainian parliament voted to oust the pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, was suspicious. But nonetheless, U.S. intelligence agencies have collected no information suggesting the training exercises were preparation for an invasion.

The mere fact of the timing when you consider what is going on in Ukraine and you see the sudden nature of the exercise would cause concern, this official said. From an intelligence perspective we dont have any reason to think its more than military exercises.

That assessment was clearly wrong, theres no getting around that. Intelligence operations have missed some things before, but it seems that in this case, the open assessment was based on a lack of positive indicators and that seems to have turned out to be a major problem. Julian Barnes of the Wall St. Journal last week went into how Russians had been able to evade eavesdropping by the US. This is a recent development that surprised people, because obviously the plans to invade should have been intercepted by US surveillance, US SIGINT was potentially circumvented.

U.S. military satellites spied Russian troops amassing within striking distance of Crimea last month. But intelligence analysts were surprised because they hadnt intercepted any telltale communications where Russian leaders, military commanders or soldiers discussed plans to invade.

Americas vaunted global surveillance is a vital tool for U.S. intelligence services, especially as an early-warning system and as a way to corroborate other evidence. In Crimea, though, U.S. intelligence officials are concluding that Russian planners might have gotten a jump on the West by evading U.S. eavesdropping.

One has to consider whether it is a coincidence that the Russians figured out how to throw NSA surveillance off their tracks, or whether they have gained another edge somehow in their capabilities. It is quite tantalizing to think that a famed NSA contractor in possession of highly classified, highly sensitive information about the very parties that conduct this surveillance may have something to do with it. Snowden was granted asylum in Russia, and according to the latest Russian statements on the affair, there is no pressure to end his asylum. Thats as interesting a coincidence as any other, and it is quite possible that select documents may have ended up in Russian hands given this sudden ability to evade the NSAs ability to pick up communications.

You cant exactly throw this at Snowdens feet so readily however, as it is still just a possibility. The intelligence community is capable of missing things and has done so before, and I suppose there are many possibilities as to why Russia has been able to evade surveillance. Note that as outside observers we may never get to the truth of the matter, but we must remain vigilant to all the potential factors and that includes that Snowden may have leaked direct info to his grantors of asylum. The Wall Street Journal writes:

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