"An engaging window into the scrappy human effort behind the Snowden revelations, Bruder and Maharidge's book also manages to provide some of the speculation, context, and-perhaps best of all-practical advice, that Snowden's book and Poitras's film will have made readers yearn for." With an appendix suggesting what citizens and activists can do to protect privacy and democracy. This is an illuminating story on the status of transparency, privacy, and trust in the age of surveillance.
Their initially stumbling, increasingly paranoid, and sometimes comic efforts to help bring Snowden's leaks to light, and ultimately, to understand their significance, unfold in an engrossing narrative that includes emails and diary entries from Poitras. This is just one of the odd, ironic details that emerges from the story of how Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge, two experienced journalists but security novices (and the friends who received and ferried the box) got drawn into the Snowden story as behind-the-scenes players. Thus the biggest national security leak of the digital era was launched via a remarkably analog network, the US Postal Service. government had built a massive surveillance apparatus and used it to spy on its own people-and the friend on the end of this chain was filmmaker Laura Poitras. This was Edward Snowden's box-materials proving that the U.S. The recipient, who didn't know the sender, only knew she was supposed to bring this box to a friend, who would ferry it to another friend. About the Book "Parts of this book appeared originally under the same title in Harper's Magazine, May 17, 2017" - T.p verso.īook Synopsis Two behind-the-scenes players in the edward snowden story reflect on the meaning of snowden's revelations in our age of surveillance One day in the spring of 2013, a box appeared outside a fourth-floor apartment door in Brooklyn, New York.
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