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SNOWDEN, THE NSA, AND THE SURVILLANCE...
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SNOWDEN, THE NSA, AND THE SURVILLANCE STATE
THE NSA THE NSA AND THE
SOWDEN SOWDEN
THE SURVILLANCE STATE THE SURVILLANCE STATE
“Every person remembers some moment in their life
where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away, because the
consequences of intervening seemed to intimidating. But there is a limit to the amount
of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each
individual can tolerate.
I crossed that line. And I am no longer alone.”
EDWARD SNOWDEN – VANITY FAIR
PART ONE
GUINNESS HONG KONG AND THE INTELIGENCE DROP
MAY 24, 2013
Edward Snowden arrived at the MIRA hotel in downtown Hong Kong.
In his luggage he carried bags filled with laptops and flash drives.
They contained the largest data breach in U.S. history. He was 29.
THE LAMPS AND HEADBOARD SEEN ON THE MIRA’S WEBSITE GAVE A CLUE AS TO
WHERE SNOWDEN WAS.
After setting up his personal security systems
he piled pillows against the door so no one in
the hallway could eavesdrop.
Then he sat on the bed alone.
He had stolen thousands of top-secret documents from
the U.S. government and was ready to share them
with the press.
SNOWDEN HAD REACHED OUT TO 3 JOURNALISTS TO
SHARE HIS STORY.
2 ACCEPTED,
GLEN GREENWALD THE GUARDIAN - ENGLAND
LAURA POITRAS DOCUMENTARIAN - GERMANY
BARTON GELLMAN THE WASHINGTON POST – U.S.A.
AND 1 DELCINED
GLENN GREENWALD
LAURA POITRAS American documentary film-maker living in Germany. She was nominated for an Oscar. On a Government watch-list. Films featured on the NY Times website.
American journalist and lawyer living in Brazil. Writer for the Guardian (UK/USA). Authored a blog (Unclaimed Territory). Now edits “The Intercept” online news.
BARTON GELLMAN American journalist for the Washington Post. Won a Pulitzer for his writing on Dick Cheney and the Bush warentless surveillance program.
On Dec. 1, 2012 Greenwald got a
cryptic email from an anonymous sender.
The sender asked him
to get a public encryption key (PEG),
which he did not have. Greenwald didn’t
think it was worth the trouble.
Snowden then sent
him encryption tutorials, including
one on video.
Greenwald again, bulked.
He didn’t know it
then but his work with Snowden
would later win him the
Pulitzer Prize.
Getting him to buy in
was a challenge for Snowden.
In late January 2013, Snowden sent an
email to LAURA POITRAS.
He had read about her on Greenwald’s
blog “Unclaimed Territory.”
She had an encryption key but he asked her to get a more secure one.
She was wary.
I don’t know if you’re legit, crazy, or trying to entrap me.” She asked if he had seen the government
file on her. He responded no. He replied “I’m not going to ask you anything. I’m just going to
tell you things.”
Poitras sought the advice of a fellow
journalist...
Using encrypted messages as a precaution, she set
up a meeting with
BARTON GELLMAN
at a cafe in NY’s West village. Then they moved
to another cafe.
Poitras shared Snowden’s information. The more
they spoke, the more they were convinced
he was real.
In May, 2013 Gellman began getting email’s of his
own from Snowden.
One of the email’s
contained a POWERPOINT presentation
about a program called
PRISIM...
Gellman recognized how explosive the story was. Snowden wanted the Post to publish within 72 hrs.
They refused, citing the time needed to authenticate the story and the source....
Snowden then turned
back to Poitras, who contacted
Greenwald and suggested they work together.
SNOWDEN THEN INVITED THEM TO
HONG KONG THEIR EDITORS DEMANDED A CHAPERONE
ON JUNE 1, 2013, GREENWALD AND POITRAS FLEW OUT OF KENNEDY AIRPORT. THEY WERE
TO MEET A 61 YEAR OLD REPORTER FROM THE GUARDIAN...
EWEN MacASKILL
feared their conversations
would be bugged so he worked out
a code so his editors back in England could
know if Snowden was credible.
SENIOR GUARDIAN WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
HIS EDITORS
WOULD
ASK HIM IF
THE ...
WAS
GOOD?
THE GUINNESS WAS VERY GOOD.
The revelations have challenged basic assumptions about what is private, ripping open debates, long festering, about
safeguarding our nation versus safeguarding the Constitution. They have raised questions about whether we should be able, either collectively or individually, to keep a secret. Because of Snowden, we suddenly live in a very
different world. People trust the Internet and their devices much less than they did, because it is understood that those devices can be used not only against individuals but also to control society and politics. Governments, meanwhile, are
taking evasive and defensive actions. Hackers and the tech community are looking hard at new ways to ensure secure
communications—at least for themselves, if not for everyone. “We were sleepwalking into abandoning our privacy, and
Snowden has woken us up,” says David Cole, a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center,
WHO IS EDWARD SNOWDEN
“How could a seemingly aimless, geeky kid from the Maryland suburbs find himself in possession of America’s most carefully guarded secrets in a Hong Kong hotel room with pillows piled against the door?”
VANITY FAIR, MAY, 2014
PART TWO
verax an introduction to Wolfgang Awsomeness
In the days after Snowden’s leaks were published, the President
characterized him this way...
Was he right?
Snowden was born June 21, 1983 in North Carolina. When he was 9 the family moved to Crofton, MD. about 14 miles from the NSA. He went to Arundel High School until his Sophomore year when he developed Mono. He missed several months of school and never went back. He enrolled at Community College and earned an advanced certification as a systems engineer.
In 2002 after a bitter divorce he and his mother moved to Ellicott City. He loved to take apart computers and put them back together. He joined the chat room of a technology internet website, where he was clever, arch, and witty, taking the screen name “The True HooHa.” In 2002 he joined a anime group that hung out around the Fort Meade area. On one photo he wrote...
“I like Japanese, I like food, I like martial arts, I like ponies, I like guns, I like food, I like girls,
I like my girlish figure that attracts girls…. I really am a nice guy, though.
Snowden’s world changed after the 9-11 attacks. At age 20, he joined the army and went to Fort Benning Georgia in 18X Special Forces unit. He soon grew disillusioned. He felt may recruits were less interested in helping oppressed people, than killing them. He broke both legs in a training accident and later returned to MD.
He soon got a job at the Univ. of Maryland, as a security guard. Eighteen months later, he was hired by the CIA as a computer engineer. He blogged...
“I don’t have a degree of ANY type. In
fact I don’t even have a high school
diploma. That said, I have $0 in debt
from student loans, and I make $70K.”
Following the cold war the CIA cut its staff by 23,000. After 9-11 they were desperate to hire young people who understood the new world of computers. His job was to maintain the computer system. It required a top-secret security clearance.
To celebrate his new job he gave himself a new gamer name on internet websites... WOLFGANG AWESOMEFOX
He was transferred to Geneva and given diplomatic cover.
He again grew disillusioned at
how the U.S. Gov. does business.
THE FOLLOWING
MONTH, SNOWDEN RESIGNED
FROM THE CIA.
The circumstances remain in dispute.
He is believed to have received a derogatory comment in his personnel file from a supervisor who had suspicions he was trying to break into unauthorized computer files.
He claims he was given permission to hack the system by his boss to test for flaws.
In 2009 he took a new job with
in Tokyo, Japan.
He worked at Yokota Air Base
where he instructed top officers on how to defend
themselves against Chinese
hackers.
While there, he designed a highly sophisticated data backup system called
EPICSHELTER EPICSHELTER
EPICSHELTER EPICSHELTER
USED AN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY TO PLACE A SHIELD AROUND EVERY
NSA SITE IN THE WORLD, ENSURING THAT THE NSA WOULD BE ABLE TO RECOVER
INFORMATION FROM ANY OF ITS LOATIONS EVEN IF THE SITE WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED IN THE
EVENT OF A WAR OR OTHER CALAMITY.
THE NSA IS ONE OF DELL’S MOST IMPORTANT SECRETIVE CLIENTS.
then assigned Snowden to a job as a high level systems administrator (SYSADMIN) at the
Kunia Regional SIGINT Operations center in Oahu, Hawaii.
His girlfriend LINDSAY MILLS (from Maryland) accompanied him to his new job.
He worked in what was known as the “Tunnel” because part of the complex is under- ground. The base was created to spy on Japan and China. Snowden had 2 jobs. He was there to deal with computer problems and answer staff questions and to troubleshoot computers and software.
The facility was cold and Snowden began wearing a sweatshirt from the Electronic
Frontier Foundation.
It was a clue to his changing attitude His salary ranged from $122,000 to $200,000
Snowden told the European Parliament that while working for DELL he spoke to more than 10 officials of his concerns about overreaching government surveillance. The NSA’s deputy director has denied this.
3 months prior to the leak Snowden quit his job with
Dell and took a lower paying job with
According to the South China Morning Post, he
took the job to gain better access to NSA documents
in order to leak them.
Intelligence officials said he was a “system administrator” but Snowden said
he was an “infrastructure analyst” charged with discovering new ways
to break into internet and telephone traffic worldwide.
THE NSA
The NSA lies on 350 acres. It has 35,000 employees,
and 18,000 parking spaces.
Employees refer to the main building as “OPS-2A” an 11 story cube of steel
and black glass. Budget: $10.5 B.
THE NSA
CONNECTOR ROAD
These companies get multi- million dollar contracts
to do NSA work.
THE NSA
CONNECTOR ROAD
They are directly tied to the NSA via “Connector Road” which runs underneath the BW Pkwy. The company made $5.8 B in 2013 with
$1.3 B coming from intelligence work.
Snowden’s job in Hawaii was to copy
millions of files from the NSA’s central
computers on the mainland onto servers in Hawaii.
These stockpiles would be important
in the event of a power outage or a
cyber attack.
“In retrospect it is astounding that a single person – and an outside contractor at that – would be given
such power to root through the nation’s national intelligence
archives”
VANITY FAIR, 2014
LINDSAY MILLS
Lindsay Mills was Snowden’s girlfriend who followed him to Hawaii.
She was an amateur photographer and dancer who grew up in Laurel and loved to post provocative
photos of herself online. She was learning to pole dance.
Shortly after she arrived in Hawaii, she tweeted
“The universe is telling me something and I'm pretty sure it’s saying “get out. For those that have forgotten I moved to Hawaii to continue my relationship
with E. It has been an emotional rollercoaster since I stepped off
the plane.”
She was taking dance classes and had made
friends. She finally got Snowden out of the house to meet
them, but until then blogged...
“...He made himself so scarce, people
weren’t quite sure E existed.”
At Thanksgiving, 2012 she returned to Maryland for a visit.
WHILE SHE WAS AWAY, SNOWDEN
WOULD TYPE HIS FIRST
EMAIL TO GUARDIAN
REPORTER GLENN
GREENWALD.
Glenn Greenwald was living in Brazil. He had moved there to be with his boyfriend
DAVID MIRANDA.
The two had met in 2002 when Greenwald took a vacation there and met him on the beach. They fell in love. Greenwald was unable to obtain citizenship for him
due to the “Defense of Marriage Act” so he moved to Rio De Janeiro.
In March 2013 Snowden flew to
the NSA for training.
After 2 weeks he returned to Hawaii and picked up the
keys to his new rental home.
Mills posted this
picture to Instagram and labeled it
“carpet dancing.”
In May, 2013 Snowden began sending documents to BARTON GELLMAN of the WASHINGTON POST.
“Perhaps I am naive, but I believe
that at this point in history, the
greatest danger to our freedom
and way of life comes from the
reasonable fear of omniscient
State powers kept in check by
nothing more than policy
documents." EDWARD SNOWDEN
SNOWDEN CALLED HIMSELF
verax LATIN FOR
TRUTH-TELLER
On Friday, May 17, Mills went for a week
of sailing with friends.
Snowden told her he was going on a
business trip and probably would not be home when she
returned.
He told his bosses at Booz Allen that he
needed to take medical leave for his
epilepsy.
He downloaded the last of his documents on a
thumb-drive and then went to the
airport.
HE WALKED INTO THE
AIRPORT ALONE
HE BELIEVED HE MIGHT NEVER RETURN.
THE END SNOWDEN / THE NSA AND THE SURVEILLANCE STATE