Snowden had a duty to protect his country and the NSA was violating the citizen’s rights to privacy and were spying on their every move. However, while working for the NSA, Snowden discovered a secret so great that he struggled to keep it a secret. After 9/11, Snowden felt a call to protect his country and knew his computer skills were the way he was going to do it.
It was during this time that Snowden learned the ins and outs of computer coding and language and worked to hack the systems that he disagreed with. Snowden grew up in a time where technology and the internet allowed for anonymity and he was free to be whoever he wanted. Read to find out how Snowden uncovered one of the government’s greatest secrets and was able to master the art of stealing classified documents from one of the most secure organizations in the world. Compelled to protect his country, Snowden believed he had no choice but to expose the horrors of XKEYSCORE, especially in a growing digital world. Snowden revealed how the NSA collects each person’s digital history including every text message, email, and phone call through a top-secret program called XKEYSCORE which acts as a search engine for the citizens of the world. government’s program that allowed them to spy on its citizens. Edward Snowden is perhaps one of the most famous whistleblowers of all time after he revealed the secrets of the U.S.
But what happens when that freedom is violated? Some will go as far as whistleblowing to expose the secrets of organizations that are violating basic human rights. 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.What’s the greatest thing about living in a democracy? Many might say it’s the citizen’s freedom of privacy. Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record 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. 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. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth.
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. Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government´s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
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