6/26/2023 0 Comments Edward snowden autobiography![]() It was only logical that young Snowden would join the community as well. The family moved to Fort Meade, in Maryland, home of the National Security Agency (NSA) His mother worked at the NSA and both parents had top secret clearances. He describes his youth in North Carolina and how he got hooked to computer games such as Arkanoid, Tetris, Choplifter! and Super Mario and how his father helped him repairing a Nintendo console – which put him on the path of understanding computer electronics. In Permanent Record, Snowden describes how he got involved with technology at a young age, when his father, an engineer with the US Coast Guard, brought home the first ever computer for pubic use, the Commodore 64. “And it is technology that is enabling this, making it all possible for the very first time." All of these companies are merely trying to shape and influence not just our society, but our lives, our habits, every kind of general behavior we have, in a deeply targeted and personal way. ![]() ![]() Speaking a week before the publication of Permanent Record, Snowden says that “what’s really changed most dramatically from the world in 2013 to the world of today is everybody is aware that Facebook is up to no good, Google is up to no good. “The problem is taht a general understanding about something that is so technical and complex, is not enough to protect yourself." Snowden publishes autobiography Permanent Record ![]()
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