Maximum PC: The Obama administration is not going to pardon Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who went on the lam after disclosing thousands of classified documents to the media. That much was made clear by the White House's long awaited response to a petition seeking a "full, free, and absolute pardon" for Snowden, who it referred to as a "national hero."
Haven, announced today, is an app that does just that. Installed on a cheap burner Android device, Haven sends notifications to your personal, main phone in the event that your laptop has been tampered with.
Edward Snowden has warned people not to use Google’s new chat app, because it lets the company read everything that they say. Google has finally released its new chat app after showing it off over the summer. It comes with a robot that watches everything people say and then stores it for later analysis, using that data to improve the app itself.
A never-before-published NSA manual makes it clear that malware released by a hacker group this week came from the spy agency.
I really wouldn't call him a national hero.
Congrats to Snowden. He had the balls to expose all the dirty things our country was doing, he is a hero.