...Introduction Edward Snowden was born on June 21, 1983 in North Carolina. He was a high school and a community college dropout, who eventually obtained a GED. He was medically discharged from the Army Reserves after breaking both legs in an accident. Snowden studied computers during his two short stints at a community college in Maryland. Soon after, he began working for the National Security Administration (NSA) as a security guard and then secured a high paying IT position with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as a federal contractor. Eventually he landed a job on a classified program back at the NSA (Edward Snowden Biography, n.d.). Accordingly, to gain access to clandestine programs and highly classified information, Snowden was granted...
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...“breaking into a computer system, for a political orsocially motivated purpose. The individual who performs an act of hacktivism is said to be a hacktivist”. Edward Snowden is an “American computer professional, former CIA employee, and former government contractor who leaked classified information from the U.S. National Security Agency in 2013”. Hacktivism has been looked at from two separate points of view. Some individuals perceive it as positive, while others negative. Edward Snowden serves as a whistleblower...
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...Page 1 Edward Joseph Snowden is a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who disclosed a global surveillance by the NSA, such as PRISM, XKeyscore, Tempora, and the interception of US and European telephone metadata. Page 2 1. In May 2013 Snowden took a leave of absence, telling his supervisors he was returning to the mainland for treatment, but instead left Hawaii for Hong Kong on May 20. 2. On June 22, US officials revoked Snowden's passport. Although Snowden had applied for political asylum to 20 countries, the US administration, specifically Vice President Joe Biden, had pressured the governments of these countries to refuse his petition for asylum. 3. On June 23, Snowden landed in Moscow's international airport. He remained in the transit zone for 39 days until being granted temporary asylum by the Russian government on August 1.Then he went to an undisclosed location kept secret for security reasons. HongKong In Hongkong, Snowden spoke very frankly about the US Government’s attempts to extradite him, so his intention is to ask the courts and people of Hongkong to decide his fate. As we can see in the pictures, On June 15, people in Hong Kong got together to support Edward Snowden. After Snowden had taken off, The HongKong government released a statement, saying that said the extradition request received from the U.S. “did not fully comply with the legal requirements under Hong Kong law.” so they had no legal reason to prevent Snowden...
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...“Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break the law.” (Snowden 2013) The American public has some homework to do regarding the fate of Edward Snowden. He has been termed a whistleblower, a traitor, and even a narcissistic personality. The Mayo Clinic (n.d.) explains this as a person who “has an inflated image of their own importance.” Additionally, author Gordon Chang (2014) has called Snowden a “dropbox,” a holder of information to serve as a “courier” (Chang, 2014). Diane Francis (2013), a writer with the Financial Post, as well as the post written by the editorial board of The New York Times (2014), both refer to Snowden as a “whistleblower” (These two varied written pieces are an enlightenment to the U.S. public, yet The New York Times makes Snowden appear as a “Hero of sorts.” (“Edward Snowden,” 2014) Snowden was not politically correct in his methods, however, as The New York Times reveals, he opened a major “can of worms” to showcase the...
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...Summer of 2013 a former National Security Agency contractor by the name of Edward Snowden disclosed classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA). The root of the data that was leaked was regarding the way the United States Government was gathering browsing habits and personal data of citizens. Basically, their ability to monitor the average citizen without their knowledge. Snowden’s feeling was that our privacies and liberties did not need to be crumpled upon to secure the nation. As a result, this was weakening our nation and causing mistrust by the government instead of securing it. The very popular debate was born, people’s right to data privacy versus the necessity for appropriate intelligence gathering. In this paper...
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...companions or the company which was denounced. Edward Snowden, a whistle-blower who leaked National Security Agency’s classified information about national and international espionage, is considered as a hero and as a traitor among some people in United States and in many countries with which U.S. has political relationships since his disclosures could undermine these international relations and the citizens’ trust. This essay exhibits the causes that led Snowden to reveal U.S. classified documents, and then the consequences of Snowden’s actions. The first cause is that he was hired by CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in 2006 as a Technical/IT expert and received a top secret clearance (Cole & Brunker, 2014, Edward Snowden: A Timeline, NBC News). The next year he is sent to Geneva, Switzerland, where he took the role of IT and cyber security expert for...
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...During what is arguably the most difficult period in U.S. history, Honest Abe expressed his hopes that “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” The NSA surveillance program goes against this principle. It poses a substantial threat to the social contract and is illegal both domestically and globally. Edward Snowden’s revelations about these activities were done so in the public interest and set him apart from many other Americans charged with espionage by the U.S. government- he is a whistleblower. For this reason, in the eyes of the international community he has committed a non-violent political crime (under the assumption that he has committed a crime). Because of this and other reasons, granting Snowden political asylum is absolutely within Russia’s rights. One can witness a large effort on behalf of the US government, from the latter half of the 20th century...
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...Who is Edward Snowden? Edward Snowden, 30, was a three-month employee of a government consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. At Booz Allen (he has since been terminated), he worked as a systems administrator at an NSA Threat Operations Center in Hawaii, one of several facilities detect threats against government computer systems. In other words, he was a low-level intelligence government contractor. Background: Edward Joseph Snowden was born June 21, 1983, he grew up in Wilmington, N.C., but later moved to Ellicott City, Md., he told The Guardian. His mother, Wendy, is the chief deputy clerk for administration and information technology at the federal court in Baltimore, a court official told NBC News. His father, Lonnie, is a former Coast Guard officer who lives in Pennsylvania, the Allentown Morning Call reported. A neighbor said he has an older sister who is an attorney. Education: He did not complete high school. He told The Guardian that he studied computers at a community college and obtained a general equivalency degree. A spokesman for Anne Arundel Community College confirmed that a student with the same name and birth date took classes there, from 1999 to 2001 and again in 2004 and 2005. Military service: He spent four months in the Army reserves, from May to September 2004 as a special forces recruit to a 14-week training course, the Army said. "He did not complete any training or receive any awards," an Army statement said. No other details were given...
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...FROM:Team Underachievers DATE:2014-10-7 SUBJECT:Proposal PURPOSE:To acquaint you with our proposal Dear Dr. Jones, Edward Snowden’s leaks about the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance programs created a global debate about privacy, security, and safety. The NSA has the capability to read email, snoop on private social network conversations, observe phone call records, and track the physical locations of citizens not charged nor suspected of any crime, without so much as a warrant. Worse, the demographic most affected this level of snooping on our digital lives, the 18-24 year-old college crowd, is the least knowledgeable and most politically apathetic about the issue. This is a recipe for disaster, and this proposal seeks funding for an awareness campaign that will address it. This campaign will raise awareness about mass surveillance and the Snowden disclosures. We will use posters and flyers to dry attention to the issue. We will use the University of New Mexico as a testing ground, using before and after surveys to gauge effectiveness. If the campaign proves successful, we will recruit volunteers and raise a second round of funding to bring the campaign to college campuses across the nation. Team Underachievers would be at the forefront of both campaigns, personally executing the trial campaign and overseeing the potential national one. After the acceptance of this proposal, we will immediately begin designing our materials and sourcing the cheapest places...
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...Maham ashfaq 16020248 Junaid sirat Comparative law Edward Snowden. Born in North Carolina in 1983, Edward Snowden worked for the National Security Agency through subcontractor Booz Allen in the NSA's Oahu office. While working there, Snowden began noticing government programs involving the NSA spying on American citizens via phone calls and internet use. Before long, leaving his very comfortable life and $200,000 salary behind, in May 2013, Snowden began copying top-secret NSA documents while at work, building a record of practices that he found invasive and alarming. The documents contained enormous and pejorative information on the NSA's domestic surveillance practices, including spying on millions of American citizens under the name of programs such as PRISM. (Edward Snowden biography) Snowden later forwarded these documents to journalists, from where on June 5th Guardian newspaper released those secret documents about an American intelligence body (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court) demanding that Verizon release information on a daily basis gathered from its American customers activities. Also the Guardian and the Washington Times released Snowden's leaked information on PRISM, a NSA program that allows real-time information collection, in this case, solely information on American citizens. Snowden now lives in Russia. One of his lawyers, Anatoly Kucherena, gave an interview with CBS News. Kucherena said that Snowden would seek temporary asylum in Russia...
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...Edward Snowden is a well-known and infamous NSA whistleblower who leaked several classified NSA documents, most notably PRISM. He revealed everyone around the world about the United States government’s mass surveillance program, and the public had a mixed reaction. On one side, they viewed Edward Snowden as a traitor to national security. On the other hand, others believe he is, like Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights leader. In my opinion, Edward Snowden is a civil rights leader because like any civil rights leader, there will be those who fear and deny change. While many may think that Edward Snowden started out as a genius, he underwent a fairly rough education throughout his childhood. Born in June 21, 1983, Edward Snowden grew up...
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...Assignment on NSA Edward Snowden Revelations and Congress reaction By ABC Date; NSA Edward Snowden Revelations and Congress reaction 1. NSA Edward Snowden Revelations The first bombs hell story was published on the basis of the top secret documents. This was related to the national security agency who spy on the American citizen. When the story was leaked, it was not mentioned that the treasure trove is based on NSA documents and source was not come in front. After three days, the person has leaked his identity. When the identity was leaked, it is revealed that he is “Edward Snowden”. Some of revelations were in queue and in coming years, explosive stories started to trickle the documents. Some of revelations are following: 1. Sweeping...
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..."They hurt our economy. They hurt our country. They limit our ability to speak and think and live and be creative, to have relationships and to associate freely.” (“NSA”) Snowden gave this meaningful quote during an interview about his motives behind his disclosure of millions of classified NSA documents (“NSA”). Edward Snowden, and the classified information he exposed, is viewed as a very controversial topic. Many see him as a hero, but in contrast, some see him as a traitor. In my eyes, Edward Snowden is a hero. Revealing these programs and documents, that are an abuse of government power, helped the public open their eyes and see the invasiveness of our government. Edward Joseph Snowden came from the small town in North Carolina, Elizabeth City. Elizabeth City was located just outside of a...
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...In a letter to the Governor of Pennsylvania in 1775, on behalf of the Pennsylvania Assembly, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” In less than twenty words, Benjamin Franklin offered his descendants, the future guardians of this democracy, a stern warning about protecting the liberties entrusted unto them with the ratification of the U. S. Constitution in 1788. As the modern day guardians of democracy, we must stand firm against those individuals and institutions who would seek to erode the liberty our forefathers entrusted to us over two hundred years ago. In a 2015 article in the The Economist, titled “Edward Snowden in the Primaries”...
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...is also a prison.”(Thoreau) Thoreau’s wisdom applies to us today. Our government’s ability to disrupt our lives has never been stronger. Against such a government, non-violent resistance makes a positive impact to our society. Peaceful civil resistance boldly shows injustice, gives courage to the oppressed, and changes the course of history. Thoreau believed a person must live free. Free to their conscience, regardless of the consequences. One current threat to our freedoms is the government’s unlawful spying on its citizens. After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the US government gave great power to various spy agencies to gather information on millions of US Citizens. Phone records, and online records were secretly gathered and stored without warrant, and without probable cause. A young analyst Edward Snowden working for the National Security Agency (NSA) exposed to the world the actions of the US Government. He did this in a peaceful way. He didn’t expose any algorithms that the...
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