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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