Below are posts associated with the “Edward Snowden” tag.
🔗 linkblog: 10 Years After Snowden: Some Things Are Better, Some We’re Still Fighting For | Electronic Frontier Foundation'
Can’t believe it’s been ten years; can’t believe we’re not collectively furious about this.
🔗 linkblog: New Book Says NSA Pressured GCHQ To Shut Down Publication Of Snowden Leaks By UK Journalists | Techdirt'
Americans should be more worried about the NSA than they are.
🔗 linkblog: Trump is Being Investigated for Potentially Violating the Espionage Act'
On one hand, I strongly believe Trump should be held accountable for all laws he’s broken or flouted. On the other, I believe that the Espionage Act has been used as a crude cudgel by several presidential administrations, and it’s really important not to be sloppy here. The second doesn’t outweigh the first, but just like one can defend the FBI raid without putting the FBI on a pedestal of infallibility, we need to be critically minded about all this.
📚 bookblog: Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)
I’m generally a fan of Doctorow’s writing—his recent collection of novellas (“Radicalized”) is one of my favorites and I also own his entire “Little Brother” trilogy. This collection of stories just didn’t land for me, though, and there are other stories/books of his that felt the same.
I wonder if his weirder, more optimistic stories don’t work for me in the same way his bleak ones do. This collection dates to 2007, and while Doctorow has long been a critic of certain uses of technology, there are some stories in here that seem like they have more faith in the future of tech than I think is warranted in a post-Snowden, post-Cambridge Analytica world.