Snowden was born six years before this event, to the day. In many ways, June 21, 1989, was the day he became what he will forever be known as: a hacker. When he awoke, the clocks in the house once again matched his father’s watch. When his parents failed to notice, he felt overwhelmed with power and a sense of freedom, and began “galloping laps around the living room.” Soon after sunset, however, he fell asleep on the floor from exhaustion. He had rebelled many nights before about having to go to bed even when not tired enough to fall asleep, but this time he was determined to do something about it. On June 21, 1989, Edward Snowden covertly reset all the clocks in his house by several hours. Get ready to learn more about him, his background and his motivations for the leaking of highly classified documents from the National Security Agency in 2013 – an event that revealed global surveillance programs and launched a thousand debates about authoritarianism, democracy, and privacy! Clocks and cinder blocks It took me nearly three decades to recognize that there was a distinction.” That’s how “Permanent Record” begins, the long-awaited 2019 autobiography of, arguably, the most influential whistleblower of recent history. I used to work for the government, but now I work for the public.
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