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The Snowden files : the inside story of the world's most wanted man / Luke Harding.

Title
The Snowden files : the inside story of the world's most wanted man / Luke Harding.
Author
Harding, Luke, 1968-
Publication
New York : Vintage, [2014]

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Description
346 pages; 21 cm
Summary
  • "IT BEGAN WITH A TANTALIZING, ANONYMOUS EMAIL: "I AM A SENIOR MEMBER OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY." What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one extraordinary man. Edward Snowden was a 29-year-old computer genius working for the National Security Agency when he shocked the world by exposing the near-universal mass surveillance programs of the United States government. His whistleblowing has shaken the leaders of nations worldwide, and generated a passionate public debate on the dangers of global monitoring and the threat to individual privacy. In a tour de force of investigative journalism that reads like a spy novel, award-winning Guardian reporter Luke Harding tells Snowden's astonishing story--from the day he left his glamorous girlfriend in Honolulu carrying a hard drive full of secrets, to the weeks of his secret-spilling in Hong Kong, to his battle for asylum and his exile in Moscow. For the first time, Harding brings together the many sources and strands of the story--touching on everything from concerns about domestic spying to the complicity of the tech sector--while also placing us in the room with Edward Snowden himself. The result is a gripping insider narrative--and a necessary and timely account of what is at stake for all of us in the new digital age"--
  • "The story of Edward Snowden and his shocking surveillance revelations"--
Subject
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
  • Computer crimes > United States
  • Domestic intelligence > United States
  • Electronic surveillance > United States
  • Leaks (Disclosure of information) > United States
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security
  • Snowden, Edward J., 1983-
  • TRUE CRIME / Espionage
  • United States. National Security Agency
  • Whistle blowing > United States
Genre/Form
True crime stories
Note
  • "Originally published in Great Britain by Guardian Books, London, and Faber and Faber Ltd., London, in 2014."
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Prologue: The rendezvous -- TheTrueHOOHA -- Civil disobedience -- The source -- Puzzle palace -- The man in the room -- Scoop! -- The planet's most wanted man -- All the signals of all time -- You've had your fun -- Don't be evil -- Flight -- Der Shitstorm! -- The broom cupboard -- Shoot the messenger -- Epilogue: Exile.
ISBN
  • 9780804173520 (paperback)
  • 0804173524 (paperback)
  • 9780804173537 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2014003457
OCLC
870337274
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library