![]() ![]() government mass domestic surveillance six years ago. ![]() Such stories enliven the new memoir, “Permanent Record,” from the computer whiz who exposed secret U.S. ![]() ![]() The scheme worked until Honest Ed explained it to a teacher. He calculated the minimum amount of work needed for passing grades in high school. Snowden would later hack his way through adolescence. If hacking, purely defined, consists of devising the simplest, most elegant way of getting what you want, then Snowden excelled at it, beginning when he set back every clock in the house at age 6 so he could stay up past bedtime. “Permanent Record,” Metropolitan Books, by Edward SnowdenĮdward Snowden is mostly self-invented, the fruit of his own ingenuity. The former CIA and National Security Agency systems engineer is now a digital privacy activist living in exile in Russia, charged with Espionage Act violations for which he says his conscience offered no other option. This cover image released by Metropolitan Books shows "Permanent Record," a memoir by Edward Snowden. ![]()
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