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Luminous Animal

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14. Wired publishes the Snowden emails to Poitras... (link also contains trailer to Citizenfour
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 11:27 AM
Oct 2014
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/snowdens-first-emails-to-poitras/?mbid=social_twitter

You ask why I picked you. I didn’t. You did. The surveillance you’ve experienced means you’ve been selected, a term which will mean more to you as you learn about how the modern sigint system works.

From now, know that every border you cross, every purchase you make, every call you dial, every cell phone tower you pass, friend you keep, article you write, site you visit, subject line you type, and packet you route, is in the hands of a system whose reach is unlimited but whose safeguards are not. Your victimization by the NSA system means that you are well aware of the threat that unrestricted, secret abilities pose for democracies. This is a story that few but you can tell.

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