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Edward Snowden
Personal blog · edwardsnowden.substack.compoliticssecurityphilosophy
Edward Snowden's personal blog at edwardsnowden.substack.com covers politics, security and philosophy. Since 2021, 30 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “The Insecurity Industry”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
The world's most famous whistleblower writes from exile on the intersection of technology, humanity, and power. Click to read Continuing Ed — with Edward Snowden, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- The Insecurity Industry4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-07-26
- The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-08-26
- Lifting the Mask3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-15
- Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-29
- Freedom is not a goal, but a direction2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-11-11
- America’s Open Wound2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-20
- Continuing Ed – With Edward Snowden2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-19
- The Most Dangerous Censorship2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-22
- Bad Faith, Worse News, and Julian Assange2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-24
- 9/12 – by Edward Snowden2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-11
What Hacker News says?
I recommend this piece from Snowden for a different point of view https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
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on “Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans”Submitted The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy as a story · 861 points
HN discussionI was surprised to not see an RSS link there, but apparently a feed does exist: https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/feed
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on “The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy”Submitted The Insecurity Industry as a story · 743 points
HN discussionagain the scanning is implemented on the phone. That's what matters for me. I have some code on my device that works as snitch against me. That might just be a feeling and irrational, yet I really don't want that. I know how it works. I don't use google photos. I don't WANT to use icloud ... Maybe I'm just too stupid, yet I enabled iCloud several times by accident due to updates/new devices. That won't happen with m…
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on “iPhone remains findable after power off”Submitted The Most Dangerous Censorship as a story · 448 points
HN discussionQuoting from Edward Snowden: "I intentionally wave away the technical and procedural details of Apple’s system here, some of which are quite clever, because they, like our man in the handsome suit, merely distract from the most pressing fact—the fact that, in just a few weeks, Apple plans to erase the boundary dividing which devices work for you, and which devices work for them." Reference: https://edwardsnowden.sub…
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on “Apple’s device surveillance plan is a threat to user privacy – and press freedom”Submitted Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice as a story · 374 points
HN discussionI don't know if you gonna read this, but I should give a credit for your take on the subject. This is what you were talking about: https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-how-is-this-l...
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on “U.S. and key allies accuse China of Microsoft Exchange cyberattacks”Submitted Freedom is not a goal, but a direction as a story · 299 points
HN discussionWinston Marshall had to leave Mumford and Sons to be able to stand up for himself. For anyone willing to throw away a life's worth of investment into their career in order to speak their mind, that's a good piece of advice. For everyone else, apologize. That is horrible advice. It is the goal of conditioning of any autocratic state. You censor yourself so the state / party / activists dont even have to act to ensure…
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on “Don’t Apologize: If the mob comes for you, stand up for yourself”Submitted America’s Open Wound as a story · 248 points
HN discussionI read the blog post, but not the URL (Do browsers show the full URL any more?). I scrolled directly down to the content. I didn't realize he was the author. He's a surprisingly insightful author, then. The first post in the series (this is the second) makes it clear that this is part of his personal story: https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/conspiracy-pt1
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on “Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One”Submitted Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One as a story · 164 points
HN discussionRelevant blog post by Ed Snowden. https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-how-is-this-l...
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on “On Pegasus – NSO, Israel, and the World”Submitted Bombs vs. Bugs as a story · 139 points
HN discussionHere's an example of purple prose that has nothing to do with the complexity of cybersecurity, from his first post on Substack ( https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/lifting-the-mask ): > Though my relationship to time fluctuates, the gravamen of my disclosures remains constant. In the past eight years, the depredations of surveillance have merely become more entrenched, with the capabilities that used to be the pro…
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on “Bombs vs. Bugs”Submitted Your Money and Your Life (Edward Snowden) as a story · 116 points
HN discussionReminds me of recent Snowden's blogpost: https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/americas-open-wound
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on “Has the CIA Done More Harm Than Good?”Submitted A Hell of Our Own Making as a story · 26 points
HN discussion> The agents said the Israelis’ technology, which helped carriers troubleshoot their customers’ smartphones by sending them an SMS link that enabled the carrier to access the phone remotely, could be useful for saving people’s lives. A decade later: > Saudi Arabia, using “Pegasus,” hacked the phones of Jamal Khashoggi’s ex-wife, and of his fiancée, and used the information gleaned to prepare for his monstrous killin…
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on “‘Somebody Has to Do the Dirty Work’: NSO Founders Defend Pegasus Spyware”Submitted Lifting the Mask as a story · 24 points
HN discussionThere is a difference between conspiracy theories and conspiracy practices. https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/conspiracy-pt1
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on “High conspiracy belief is associated with low critical thinking ability”Submitted Freedom is not a goal, but a direction as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted 9/12 – by Edward Snowden as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lifting the Mask – Continuing Ed – With Edward Snowden as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Covid, Climate, and the New Denialism as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bad Faith, Worse News, and Julian Assange as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything Going Great as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cultural Revolutions as a story · 5 points
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