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An edition of Permanent Record (2019)

Permanent Record

  • 4.52 ·
  • 48 Ratings
  • 152 Want to read
  • 10 Currently reading
  • 68 Have read

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.

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.

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Language
English
Pages
339

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2019, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
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Table of Contents

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 Lindsay Mills
Love and Exile

Classifications

Library of Congress
JF1525.W45 S655 2019, CT275.S6693 A3 2019

Contributors

Jacket Design
Rodrigo Corral
Jacket Photo
Platon

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27322193M
ISBN 13
9781250237231
LCCN
2019947833
OCLC/WorldCat
1114558657
Wikidata
Q66061138

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