{"id":12365,"date":"2020-08-18T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=12365"},"modified":"2020-08-18T15:01:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T19:01:29","slug":"what-did-edward-snowden-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-did-edward-snowden-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What Did Edward Snowden Do? The Historic NSA Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who is Edward Snowden and what did he do? How did Ed decide to leak top secret government documents? What did Edward Snowden do after he blew the whistle?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edward Snowden is best known for leaking documents proving the existence of US mass surveillance. He spoke to journalists in 2013 and then received asylum from Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What did Edward Snowden do? Learn more about it below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What Did Edward Snowden Do to Find Out About Mass Surveillance?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Unclassified Report on the President\u2019s Surveillance Program<\/em> was released around the same time Ed was starting to suspect the US might be conducting some form of mass surveillance.<strong> Ed thought the report had holes in it, so he went looking through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-cia-operations-technology-langley\/\">the CIA<\/a> and NSA networks for the classified version. <\/strong>He couldn\u2019t find it and eventually gave up.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What did Edward Snowden do to get to the classified version of the report? The classified version found him. Because Ed was a sysadmin, whenever someone accidentally saved a draft copy of something they shouldn\u2019t have, the system alerted him. The most confidential files had labels called \u201cdirty words\u201d that indicated that the file shouldn\u2019t be stored outside of high-security drives. Whenever the system encountered a dirty word, it would notify the sysadmin\u2014in this case, Ed\u2014so he could get rid of it. He was expected to take a look at flagged files to make sure they weren\u2019t flagged by accident.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone saved a draft of the classified report where they shouldn\u2019t have (it normally lived in a compartment of Exceptionally Controlled Information).<strong> Ed read it and discovered that the US government was in fact conducting mass surveillance.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What Did Edward Snowden Do When He Decided to Blow the Whistle?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2012, the intelligence community celebrated Constitution Day and Citizenship Day by sending around an email and setting up a table with free hard copies of the Constitution. Ed always took a copy, and this year, with everything weighing on his mind, he read it closely. The Fourth Amendment in particular resonated with him, because it covered privacy.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike the NSA, Ed considers that our computer files count as \u201cpapers\u201d and our data, including metadata, falls under \u201ceffects.\u201d Our phones, clouds, and computers are also our \u201chomes\u201d\u2014are you any more comfortable giving a stranger your unlocked phone than you are letting them into your house?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ed decided he was going to leak the intelligence community\u2019s original documents rather than simply describe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/stellar-wind-edward-snowden-surveillance\/\">STELLARWIND<\/a> to the press.<\/strong> This meant that he had to access the documents, organize them, and then remove them from the NSA building.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What Did Edward Snowden Do to Steal the Files From the NSA?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ed had access to a lot of intelligence data including, importantly, FBI reports on how they caught people.<\/strong> Since the FBI would usually arrest people on their way home from work, Ed paid particular attention to how he interacted with security on his way out. He\u2019d worked security back in the job that got him his clearance in Maryland and he knew it was boring, so he\u2019d banter with the guards and chat about his Rubik\u2019s Cube.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Ed got home from work, he\u2019d hide his laptop under a cotton blanket in case the FBI had bugged his house. Then, he\u2019d transfer the files from the SD cards to a bigger, very securely encrypted, external storage device.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What did Edward Snowden do after storing the files? Just like at work, Ed was careful not to leave any traces of what he was doing on his technology at home.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What Did Edward Snowden Do to Come Forward?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ed thought about trying to keep his name out of the leak, but ultimately decided not<\/strong> to for a couple of reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He was probably the only person in the intelligence community who had access to all the files he was going to leak, so it wouldn\u2019t take the intelligence community long to figure out he was the source. The only way to avoid this would have been to share fewer files, which would have weakened his story.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The files might contain identifying metadata. Metadata is more than just the date a file was accessed; the tags can be invisible and Ed didn\u2019t know what they all might be. To erase even the ones he knew about, he\u2019d have to alter the files, which might cause people to question if they were real and authentic.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is Edward Snowden and what did he do? How did Ed decide to leak top secret government documents? What did Edward Snowden do after he blew the whistle? Edward Snowden is best known for leaking documents proving the existence of US mass surveillance. He spoke to journalists in 2013 and then received asylum from Russia. What did Edward Snowden do? 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