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Domestic Surveillance

Edward Snowden: The US is Undermining its own Cybersecurity

Juan Cole 03/11/2014

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SXSW: Snowden Touts Encryption, Swipes at NSA (via slashdot)

In a Google Hangout with an auditorium full of South by Southwest attendees, government whistleblower (and former NSA employee) Edward Snowden suggested that encrypted communication should become more ubiquitous and easier to use for the majority of…

 

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Edward Snowden and ACLU at SXSW [South by Southwest]

Filed Under: Domestic Surveillance, Government surveillance, Internet

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan and an adjunct professor, Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University. He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires. Follow him at @jricole.

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