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…the New York Times that his superior officer ordered him not “to rock the boat.” Further, he complained that the technical team at the CIA station in Geneva had “brushed him off’ even though he had a legitimate complaint. When he complained about a flaw in the computer system, he...

…’s about time this book was written. It is a long-overdue manifesto for the mobile lifestyle, and Tim Ferriss is the ideal ambassador. This will be huge.” —JACK CANFIELD, cocreator of Chicken Soup for the Soul®, 100+ million copies sold “Stunning and amazing. From mini-retirement...

… ITS SECRETS have been reeled in unwittingly. Morell suggested in his book that Snowden might not himself have fully realized “when and how he would be used.” It can be safely assumed that the decision made by Putin’s intel- ligence service to allow Snowden to travel to Russia...

244 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS was a nervous period,” Snowden recalled. Although he bravely told The Guardian “there was no risk” that the information he carried had been compromised by other parties in Hong Kong, that claim was, at best, wishful thinking on his part. By th...

258 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? this argument, but music is much easier to analyze. It is linear, highly mathematical and largely uniform by culture and language. Yet it is universally appreciated. Is music a computational or a creative endeavor? Is Music Computable To prov...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians Chapter 3 The Enemy Within: Civil Society at Bay Among the more surprising developments in 21st-century politics are the reversals experienced by civil society, once regarded as an irresistible fo...

…RICA LOST ITS SECRETS That same July, Snowden had other things on his mind, includ- ing an attempt to advance himself. Although his position at Dell as a system administrator was a well-compensated one, especially for a twenty-nine-year-old with no formal education, it carried l...

…ould have been staying in a well-prepared safe-house anywhere in Hong Kong or even at the home of an unknown associate. All that is really known is that soon after he emerged from this venue and gave his celebrated interview to journalist he was aboard an Aeroflot plane bound for...

…e film, hereinafter referred to as CitizenFour, can be found at: https://thoughtmaybe.com/citizenfour/ 2 5. “The initial impression was...’ p. 30. Greenwald, No Place to Hide, op. cit. 6. “Minutes after meeting, I...”--...”— George Packer, “The Holder of Secrets,” New Yorker,...

206 “When I accepted the case, I received Snowden’s dossier.” He answered. “I was able to see all his interviews.” Presumably Snowden’s dossier included his interviews with the FSB, SVR and other Russian security services. If so, it would explain how Kucherena could be so certa...

CHAPTER 5 Crossing the Rubicon What I came to feel is that a regime that is described as a national security agency has stopped representing the public interest and has instead begun to protect and promote state security interests. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 S OON AFTER Sno...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians The CCP has also asserted control over news outlets in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Chinese diaspora commu- nities around the world.’® Beijing has used pressure tactics and exerted influence through inter...

…inofsky. Problem is after Windows, pretty much everything else in the US is a step down. No-one else is building an OS. Alibaba or Xiaomi in China are. But if he wants to stay in the US, then probably the best options are Facebook (who may one day do their own OS), Palantir (Pete...

… Fusion of Civilizations Date: May 4, 2016 at 2:05:48 PM EDT To: Reply-To: The Fusion of Civilizations The Case for Global Optimism Foreign Affairs May/June 2016 issue By Kishore Mahbubani and Lawrence H. Summers The mood of much of the world is grim these days. Turmoil in the Mi...