The name of Edward Snowden every day more and more often flashes in the news feeds of Runet and more often sounds on radio and television. In general, Edward Snowden made a splash related to the disclosure of classified information, no less than at one time Julian Assange.
Biography
Edward Snowden was born in the state of North Carolina, in a town with a romantic name Elizabeth City, and spent his childhood and youth in Maryland. There he graduated from high school and went to college, where he studied computer science. Interestingly, Edward was not the first time managed to get a diploma.
In 2003, Snowden joined the ranks of the US Army, however, during unsuccessful exercises, get fractures of both legs and was forced to leave service
Snowden later got a job at the US National Security Agency. His task was to protect a secret facility located on the territory of the University of Maryland. Presumably it was CASL (Center for Advanced Language Studies). During his work, Snowden received a Top Secret level clearance, thanks to which he could have access to many classified materials.
Since March 2007, Snowden worked in the CIA, in the information security department (he is a system administrator by profession). Until 2009, he worked at the United Nations under the guise of a US mission and was involved in computer network security.
However, at one point, Edward was disappointed in the work of American intelligence. He told how in 2007 he witnessed an extremely unpleasant story: CIA officers got a Swiss bank employee drunk, put behind the wheel and persuaded to go home. When he was arrested for drunk driving, agents offered him a deal - help in exchange for access to bank secret information. Snowden said that during his service in Geneva he saw that his government’s activities do far more harm than good to the world. Edward hoped that with the advent of Barack Obama, the situation would change for the better, but it only got worse.
Edard resigned from the CIA and recently, together with his girlfriend, rented a house in Hawaii and worked for Booz Allen Hamilton.
Secret disclosure
In January 2012, Snowden wrote several encrypted emails to Laura Praiglava of the Free Press Foundation, Guardian journalist Glen Greenwald and Washington Post author Barton Gellman. He offered to supply them with some secret information, which, as a result, he took up.
On June 6, 2013, the public became aware of the existence of PRISM, the U.S. top secret program. The program is aimed at obtaining secret and not very information on the Internet, companies such as Microsoft, Google, Yahoo !, Facebook and others willingly went to cooperate with it. In the ranks of employees of the National Security Agency reigned complete chaos and hysteria, they promptly turned to the FBI for assistance in the investigation.
In fact, thanks to Snowden, the Americans learned that they can be mass surveillance through e-mail, phone, video chat and personal correspondence in social networks.
Atkzhe Snowden disclosed information about the existence of the British Tempora tracking program and that British intelligence services infiltrated computers and monitored calls from foreign politicians at the G20 summit (London, 2009).
This and many other declassified information caused great damage to the secret services of the United States and Great Britain.
Snowden talked about the fact that not all secret data is transmitted, but only those that will not harm specific people, but will help to make the world a better place for at least a second — people should be aware that they can penetrate their private life at any moment..
