{"id":14371,"date":"2015-11-13T07:50:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T12:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14371"},"modified":"2015-11-13T07:50:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T12:50:27","slug":"edward-snowden-explains-how-to-reclaim-your-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14371","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Your Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Your Privacy<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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L<\/span>AST MONTH, I met Edward Snowden in a hotel in central Moscow, just blocks away from Red Square. It was the first time we\u2019d met in person;\u00a0he first emailed\u00a0me<\/a>\u00a0nearly two years earlier, and we eventually created\u00a0an\u00a0encrypted channel\u00a0to\u00a0journalists Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, to whom Snowden would disclose overreaching mass surveillance by\u00a0the National Security Agency and its British equivalent, GCHQ.<\/p>\n

This time around, Snowden\u2019s anonymity was gone; the world knew who he was, much of what he\u2019d leaked, and that he\u2019d\u00a0been living in exile in Moscow, where he\u2019s been stranded ever since the State Department canceled his passport while he was en route to Latin America. His situation was more stable, the threats against him a bit easier to predict. So I approached my 2015 Snowden meeting with less\u00a0paranoia\u00a0than\u00a0was warranted in\u00a02013, and with a little more attention to physical\u00a0security, since this time our communications would not be confined to the internet.<\/p>\n

Our first meeting\u00a0would be\u00a0in the hotel lobby, and I arrived with all my important electronic gear in tow. I had\u00a0powered down my smartphone\u00a0and\u00a0placed it in a \u201cfaraday bag\u201d designed to block all\u00a0radio emissions. This, in turn, was tucked\u00a0inside my backpack next to my laptop (which I configured and hardened\u00a0specifically for traveling to Russia), also powered off. Both electronic devices stored their data in encrypted form, but\u00a0disk encryption isn\u2019t perfect<\/a>, and leaving these in my hotel room seemed like an invitation to tampering.<\/p>\n

Most of the lobby seats were taken by well-dressed Russians sipping cocktails. I planted myself on an empty couch off in a nook hidden from most of the action and from the only security camera I could spot.<\/p>\n

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Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Your Privacy LAST MONTH, I met Edward Snowden in a hotel in central Moscow, just blocks away from Red Square. It was the first time we\u2019d met in person;\u00a0he first emailed\u00a0me\u00a0nearly two years earlier, and we eventually created\u00a0an\u00a0encrypted channel\u00a0to\u00a0journalists Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, to whom Snowden would disclose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[249,1511,5437,4543,542,577,652,712,765],"class_list":["post-14371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-edward-snowden","tag-gchq","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-intercept","tag-moscow","tag-nsa","tag-privacy","tag-security","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14373,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14371\/revisions\/14373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}