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Permanent record / Edward Snowden.

By: Publisher: New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: x, 339 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250237231
  • 1250237238
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • JF1525 .W45 S66 2019
Contents:
Preface -- PART ONE. Looking Through the Window -- The Invisible Wall -- Beltway Boy -- American Online -- Hacking -- Incomplete -- 9/11 -- 9/12 -- X-Rays -- Cleared and in Love -- PART TWO. The System -- Homo contractus -- Indoc -- The Count of the Hill -- Geneva -- Tokyo -- Home on the Cloud -- On the Couch -- PART THREE. The Tunnel -- Heartbeat -- Whistleblowing -- Fourth Estate -- Read, Write, Execute -- Encrypt -- The Boy -- Hong Kong -- Moscow -- From the Diaries of Lindsay Mills -- Love and Exile -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, this is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online -- a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet's conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.
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Preface -- PART ONE. Looking Through the Window -- The Invisible Wall -- Beltway Boy -- American Online -- Hacking -- Incomplete -- 9/11 -- 9/12 -- X-Rays -- Cleared and in Love -- PART TWO. The System -- Homo contractus -- Indoc -- The Count of the Hill -- Geneva -- Tokyo -- Home on the Cloud -- On the Couch -- PART THREE. The Tunnel -- Heartbeat -- Whistleblowing -- Fourth Estate -- Read, Write, Execute -- Encrypt -- The Boy -- Hong Kong -- Moscow -- From the Diaries of Lindsay Mills -- Love and Exile -- Acknowledgments.

In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, this is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online -- a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet's conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.

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