I recently read Permanent Record by Edward Snowden. In the book, Snowden explains, in his own words, the path that leads him to blow the whistle on a massive, covert, digital spying operation by the National Security Administration (NSA). The book contains three parts.
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In Part I, Edward Snowden provides the backstory of his life. He was giving context and setting the stage for the rest of the story. What resonated with me was that he is nearly the same age as I am and had many similar growing-up experiences. This part certainly allowed us as readers to understand his fascination with computing and technology. Here we also learn about why the unfiltered internet of the 1990s shaped his view of what the internet could and should be.
Throughout part II, we go on a journey. This journey takes us through the rapidly moving career of Edward Snowden. In this dizzying part, we learn about all of Snowden’s various positions as both a U.S. government employee and a contractor with the U. S. government. Amazingly, he was able to pivot into new posts rapidly.
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. Channel 4 News is among the highest-rated television programmes in the United Kingdom, winning a record five Royal Television Society Television Awards in February 2006. These included TV Journalist of the Year for Jon Snow, Home News Award for the Attorney General leak, and the International News Award for Congo's Tin Soldiers. Excerpt from Permanent Record by Edward Snowden: Chapter 13 pg 115 paragraph 4. Quotes:'The reason you're reading this book is that I did a dangerous thing f. 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. Permanent Record - by Edward Snowden (Hardcover) $14.99. Undefined out of 5 stars with 0 reviews. Help us improve this page. About this item. Permanent Record is full of surprises. A deeply reluctant whistleblower, Snowden also emerges as a peculiarly American patriot, with roots.
Snowden slows down for the reader in multiple areas of the book. Not only does Snowden slow down when talking about his career, but he also slows down when talking about technical topics to ensure that a broad audience can fully understand key concepts. Snowden wants the reader to engage with the work.
Snowden slows down to explain the relationship between a government employee and a private corporation employee working on a contract for the U. S. government. This government employee/contractor line is very well defined. As someone who had no idea how this system worked, the explanation provided was fascinating.
By telling us the story of his career, we can see that he had access to understand the system from various angles, and always with very high access privileges. By explaining his career in this way, the reader can understand how Snowden saw how the internet should be and the problems he had surrounding internet privacy.
Through the lens of understanding the totality of Snowden’s career, the reader can consider Snowden as someone who has seen privacy concerns from multiple perspectives. By understanding his point-of-view, I believe Snowden communicates that he was not a disgruntled employee or contractor, spilling the beans for profit or national humiliation.
In part III, Snowden goes into detail about how he did it. How did he get data outside of very secure locations and later get them into the hands of journalists? Who did Snowden trust to tell the story that he was trying to unfold? Where did he go when he was getting this information out?
From the levels of encryption that he placed on the data to smuggling data out of the secure Tunnel in Hawaii where he worked. This part of the story contains the action, the excitement, and the drama of moving secrets. Snowden is tasked with moving secrets out of a government stronghold, into the hands of journalists, and ultimately the public.
This part ends with a thrilling account of how he became marooned in Russia with few options and ultimately choosing (perhaps not a choice) to live in Russia.
Lastly, this drama closes with diary pages from Snowden’s then-girlfriend, now wife, as she lived directly after the information was published. Her interrogations with the FBI and her legal struggle conclude in their reunion in Russia.
What do I think? I think this work is a vital piece outlining the importance of our data and internet privacy. The work outlines how the idea of privacy, in a digital way, is a fallacy. Even if the government has stopped its NSA spying program, which I’m doubting, large corporations collect any information about you they possibly can.
Over the last few years, I think it is fair to say that there has been some political turmoil in the United States. When asked about it, I have responded with some variation of: “What the big tech companies are doing is WAY more impactful to my life than what anybody is doing in Washington D.C.”
I still believe this sentiment is true, but now I think I should add that it isn’t what we know about the government. It’s what we don’t know that can have the most significant impact on our lives.
Before reading this work, I recognized that we (as users) had given away our privacy to big technology companies in exchange for really cool toys and services. Now, I know that unbeknownst to everyone, the government has backdoors to make sure that they can track everyone online (not just U.S. Citizens and residents). I can only assume other governments have similar backdoors.
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What do I now know? There is no privacy digitally or online. It’s over. Our digital lives can and will be used against us by world governments at will. Can this be fixed? It doesn’t appear to be so. End-User License Agreements (EULA) get longer and longer by the day, and government operations are less detectable. This is part of life.
In writing this, I have self-identified myself to extensive government data-collecting platforms. So be it. I’m writing this to let folks know that Snowden’s arguments are sound, and I recommend reading the book for yourself and draw your conclusions.
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What can be done? Move into using Tor and encrypting all communications and data. Moving life to more offline, analog activities. Turning smartphones off (actually powered down) when you’re not actively using them.
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Below are some of the original articles that have been written about the information that Snowden provided to journalists, along with an explanation from Edward Snowden himself.