Permanent Record

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Preface -- PART ONE -- Looking Through the Window -- The Invisible Wall -- Beltway Boy -- American Online -- Hacking -- Incomplete -- 9/11 -- 9/12 -- X-Rays -- Cleared and in Love -- PART TWO -- The System -- Homo contractus -- Indoc -- The Count of the Hill -- Geneva -- Tokyo -- Home on the Cloud -- On the Couch -- PART THREE -- The Tunnel -- Heartbeat -- Whistleblowing -- Fourth Estate -- Read, Write, Execute -- Encrypt -- The Boy -- Hong Kong -- Moscow -- From the Diaries of Lindsey Mills -- Love and Exile -- Acknowledgments.
"In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. 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. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic."--Amazon.

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Fascinating read submitted by hiker15 on August 23, 2020, 12:04pm This was a fascinating read. Mostly autobiographical info about Snowden's history of work for the federal government which allowed him access to classified documents. But also the whole hoo-ha behind his release of the documents and the aftermath. This book kept my interest through the entire thing mostly because he reported on the federal government breaking its own laws which prohibited it spying and keeping all kinds of data on U.S. citizens.

If Snowden hadn't reported this lawbreaking by the government (which the government wanted to keep secret), then the government would still be keeping a bunch of our private data and we wouldn't know about it. In the aftermath of Snowden's data release, the U.S. Congress passed new laws that the government can't keep this data (which proved he was correct) but poor Snowden is still prohibited from returning to the U.S. And to think we let the fellow who orchestrated the Pearl Harbor bombings where Americans were killed to live free in the state of Washington. Crazy!