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Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

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Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

His allegiance to internet freedom is reflected in the stickers on his laptop: "I support Online Rights: Electronic Frontier Foundation," reads one. Another hails the online organisation offering anonymity, the Tor Project.

Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras
Sunday, June 9, 2013
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