![]() ![]() Though I wasn’t much of a veteran, having passed through the military’s vetting could only help my chances of working at an intelligence agency, which was where my talents would be most in demand and, perhaps, most challenged. ![]() That, and only that, would be giving my country my best. I would have to serve it through my head and hands - through computing. And of course it would be the ideal that guided him out, as well.Īfter my injured legs forced me out of the Army, I still had the urge to serve my country. This was the ideal that guided Snowden into the NSA. At its root was a decision dating to Snowden’s earliest contact with the NSA - “the first thing that you might call a principle that occurred to me during this idle but formative time,” as the future government systems engineer puts it in the excerpt below: The determination to live in an honest world, a world where people could show their true faces and own their full history, a world without shame. Now, in his new memoir “ Permanent Record,” Snowden explains how his revolutionary act of whistleblowing came to occur. ![]() ![]() Six years ago, he provided documents about this electronic panopticon to journalists, and the shocking revelations that ensued set off massive changes - changes in attitudes and behaviors, in policies and technologies, across private industry and the public sector, in the U.S. While working for the National Security Agency, Edward Snowden helped build a system to enable the United States government to capture all phone calls, text messages, and emails. ![]()
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