NO PLACE TO HIDE: EDWARD SNOWDEN, THE NSA, AND THE U.S. SURVEILLANCE STATE PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Glenn Greenwald | 304 pages | 28 Apr 2015 | Picador USA | 9781250062581 | English | United States No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State PDF Book Laura said it was critical that I speak to him directly, to assure him and placate his growing concerns. As the stories rolled out last year, there was almost too much to absorb My fear was quickly validated. You have many technically-proficient followers who are willing to offer immediate assistance. She handed over the thumb drive and suggested that I start looking at her set of documents. He was the only present target for our irritation, so we treated him like extra baggage with which we had been saddled. When it's not about Greenwald and his sense of his own heroic reporting, the content consists of copies of the leaked documents pages of powerpoint slides and quotes by other reporters. The next time Poitras flew out of the United States after the article ran, there was no interrogation and she did not have her materials seized. They were riveting. Did Trump collude with the Russians, I personally don't believe he has the depth or knowledge to successfully do that. Laura had been working for years on the subject of NSA surveillance, herself repeatedly subjected to its abuses. What makes leak cases difficult is that some leaking—some interaction between reporters and sources who have access to classified information—is normal, even indispensable, in a society with a free press. Then a full week. Gibson was waiting for us when we arrived. That's first thing that comes to my mind if i have to say something about it. It was outstanding — 5 stars. Coming at a landmark moment in American history, No Place to Hide is a fearless, incisive, and essential contribution to our understanding of the U. Gibson would need assurances about what was happening there and a way to assuage any worries her bosses in London might have. White and Philip G. But I am still shocked nonetheless at the number of people who support this kid's behaviour. In , Greenwald led the Guardian reporting that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service. The court is one of the most secretive institutions in the government. But nobody—not even the hawkish Republican House members who authored the Patriot Act back in or the most devoted civil liberties advocates who depicted the bill in the most menacing light—thought that the law empowered the US government to collect records on everyone , in bulk and indiscriminately. I knew from my years of writing about NSA abuses that it can be hard to generate serious concern about secret state surveillance: invasion of privacy and abuse of power can be viewed as abstractions, ones that are difficult to get people to care about viscerally. Seven weeks went by, and my failure to do this weighed a bit on my mind. I tore open the envelope and found two USB thumb drives, along with a typewritten note containing detailed instructions for using various computer programs designed to provide maximum security, as well as numerous passphrases to encrypted email accounts and other programs I had never heard of. Audio MP3 on CD. Selbst wenn er, eher selten, glorifiziert wird, schadet dass der Sache. Ten Days in Hong Kong 33 3. Over the past seven years, I had been driven by the same conviction, writing almost on a daily basis about the dangerous trends in US state secrecy, radical executive power theories, detention and surveillance abuses, militarism, and the assault on civil liberties. In May , Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State Writer But Snowden did none of this. The media pays attention when top secret documents are leaked. I'm just so happy it describes reality There's one small issue I had with this book: The graphics with the NSA documents that are distributed over the text, can hardly be read on the Kindle device. My heart was racing. With this work, both of us had struggled against the great wall of secrecy shielding government spying: How do you document the actions of an agency so completely shrouded in multiple layers of official secrecy? In it, he describes himself as appalled by the government he served: "The N. Well, let me say, I picked it up and couldn't put it down. Every last document had been placed exactly where it belonged. Three days later, I heard from C. Please accept my sincerest thanks for your support of communications privacy! Despite my intentions, I never created the time to work on encryption. I also decided that you would have to live totally off the grid to have any real privacy, which I don't think is even possible to do any longer. When one falls they all fall together. As i said, this is the most important book of the year so far , a must- read for everyone who wants know where things stand with the privacy in the Internet era. Really, if I buy a book, I'd like for it all to be there! Surveillance State instead. But he says he has many, many more. As I continued reading, two things struck me about the archive. He could have been inventing the entire tale. I could barely wait to publish it, sure that its exposure would trigger an earthquake, and that calls for transparency and accountability were sure to follow. Charged under the Espionage Act, Snowden and his lawyers don't believe he could get a fair trial in the States. She had received a series of anonymous emails from someone who seemed both honest and serious. My fear was quickly validated. Napolitano, FOX News. It is so. But I assumed his situation was delicate. In this era of social media and near-constant connection to the Internet and our phones, our private lives are no longer private. Also excoriates the mainstream media with righteous, smoldering contempt for toeing the party line and publishing only "government-approved" material. Something intangible yet powerful about those emails convinced us that their author was genuine. Then, on May 11, I received an email from a tech expert with whom Laura and I had worked in the past. He was the only present target for our irritation, so we treated him like extra baggage with which we had been saddled. The subject line read, "Need to talk. Once we arrived in Hong Kong, she said, the source would ensure I had full access to my own complete set. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State Reviews I'd give this four and a half stars if I could! No way. I asked about whether I now had access to the secret documents. Laura then added some startling new information, that we might have to travel to Hong Kong immediately, to meet our source. It also makes me rethink all the conflict about the new DSM. I'm not even kidding. The last chapters of the book turn into more of a political diatribe as he talks about the experiences he and his partner David Miranda experienced being vilified in the press and by the customs officers at Heathrow airport. Where are you? And Laura, who plans everything meticulously, was also bound to be furious at this sudden change in our plans. Also excoriates the mainstream media with righteous, smoldering contempt for toeing the party line and publishing only "government-approved" material. I find that unsettling. What the film does give you is a chance to hear Snowden's side of things, as Laura Poitras was with him in the hotel in Hong Kong during the eight days that Greenwald interviewed Snowden a This isn't a review of No Place To Hide, I haven't read this book. Sort order. This passive posture was difficult for me. Within an hour, the source himself emailed me. After returning to Rio, I heard nothing for three weeks. I've accepted that my life will likely be over from my doing this. Its not just a good plot for a movie anymore, its not HYDRA, its not the secret police of Night Vale, its not its right now, its your cell phone, its your facebook account, its you google docs, and its definitely those smart home listening devices, and really, its also probably your smart car Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Only now did I feel that I was truly beginning to process the true magnitude of the leak. He assured us that we would. The source was upset by how things had gone thus far, particularly about a new turn: the possible involvement of the Washington Post. He claimed to have access to some extremely secret and incriminating documents about the US government spying on its own citizens and on the rest of the world. The fact that the scandal has no consequences implies a different story than the initial indignation. Trade Representative, upstream surveillance, , , Utah data storage facility, 24, We sat in miserable, angry silence for ten minutes as the car was stuck in traffic on the way to JFK. He and Glenn Greenwald have raised the bar of integrity, courage and sacrifice in our modern era, and they are heroes for it.