A few days back, one of my colleagues wrote about Edward Snowden's appearance on the JRE. In his post, he talked about how freely Snowden was able to communicate his motivation for the actions he took in 2013. In another post, he wrote about the various changes that have taken place in the internet space since those revelations. In both cases, the posts have been from the perspective, or at least with the assumption, that in an aggregate, those revelations were positive. I think it is important to...

Not long ago, I wrote about the changes that have taken place since Edward Snowden revealed the extremes the US government had reached in order to "keep us safe". Today, on the Joe Rogan podcast, Snowden gave one of the best interviews I've heard from him. During the interview, he was able to talk about his childhood, his enthusiasm for technology since a young age, his various jobs in the intelligence community and finally, the catalysts that led him to share the bulk of documents confirming the US...

#snowden #privacy #newera Edward Snowden is back in the news. Snowden is promoting a new book, Permanent Record. In the book, a memoir, he goes on to provide a more in-depth record of what happened. This is not a book review, rather a look at how things have changed, if at all, since his revelations, back in 2013. I have been working in technology for a long time, circa 2001. I got my first computer back in the early 90s, during the Prodigy and AOL days. I still...