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| Subject: Heroic NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden seeks to develop anti-surveillance technologies Sun Jul 20, 2014 7:53 pm | |
| 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.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/national-security-agency-whistleblower-edward-snowden-seeks-to-develop-antisurveillance-technologies-20140720-zuy2z.html |
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