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…sn’t mean that you are not being followed.” In any event, Appelbaum acted to defeat the perceived surveillance. Runa Sandvik was another principal core developers in the TOR project in 2012. A Norwegian national in her mid-twenties, she wrote in 2012 a well-followed blog for...

…dy attempted to find co-workers at the NSA who might be interested in attending an anti-NSA surveillance presentation. Sandvik not only agreed to be Snowden’s co-presenter but made the Oahu CryptoParty a Tor-sponsored event. Sandvik flew to Honolulu on December 6, 2012. It was a...

…”—George Packer, The Holder of Secrets, The New Yorker, October 20, 2014 “She identified herself in Forbes...’”—Runa A Sandvik, Forbes, http://www.forbes.com/sites/runasandvik/ “TOR Stinks...”—Sean Michael Kerner, “Snowden Leaks Show NSA Targets Tor,” E Week, October 4, 2013 “...

Hacktivist | 57 ment. Snowden next introduced Sandvik, who took the podium and discussed the work of the Tor Project, stressing the importance of expanding the Tor network. Following their presentations, Snowden and Sandvik took questions from the audience. The Oahu CryptoParty...

his true name and address in Hawaii. Sandvik had no reason

his true name and address in Hawaii. Sandvik had no reason not to

who he introduced to Sandvik as his girlfriend. He told her that she was there to

Sandvik went to a local diner called Zippy’s for a late dinner. She left

…Poitras, he joined the board of directors of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The foundation, which eventually Runa Sandvik and Micah Lee would join, had been set up expressly to funnel money to both Assange’s Wikileaks site and the defense fund for Bradley Manning after he w...

…d the first party, and it is not unlikely that many of them recognized him as their co-worker. If so, they knew (as did Sandvik and Mills) that the Tor advocate “Cincinnatus” was Snowden. He had also not been shy in contacting notable enemies of the NSA via e-mail, such as Jacob...

…nowden began anonymously contact- ing a high-profile journalist. He used the same alias, Cincinnatus, that he used with Sandvik and to advertise the Oahu CryptoParty. The journalist to whom he wrote on December 1, 2012, was Glenn Greenwald, the previously mentioned Rio-based colu...

… was also well-connected to others whom Snowden had contacted © for his CryptoParty. Lee had been an associate of Runa Sandvik’s at ® Tor and was a prominent member of Noisebridge, an eclectic anti- government hackers’ commune based in Northern California, of which Appelbaum was...

…ay Mills: Luis Silos NSA headquarters: AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File Jacob Appelbaum: Axel Heimken via AP Images Runa Sandvik: AP Photo/John Locher CryptoParty: Courtesy Ena and Ines Talakic Anatoly Kucherena: AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Snowden’s first appearance in Russ...

… monitors and records virtually everything even the most law-abiding citizens do.” That same week, Snowden invited Runa Sandvik to co-host his CryptoParty. One problem for Snowden in reaching out to Greenwald was Greenwald’s lack of any encryption for his e-mails. Communicating...

…ist as well as a journalist. He joined the board of directors of the Freedom of the Press Foundation (eventu- ally Runa Sandvik would join too). It had been set up expressly to funnel money to both Assange’s WikiLeaks site and the defense fund for Manning after he was arrested. S...