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White House Pshaws Online Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden

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."

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Tonykid3433d ago

I really wouldn't call him a national hero.

dcbronco3433d ago (Edited 3433d ago )

I would. Americans need to learn we can't continue to --it on the world in the name of "national security" and think the world will accept it. Our government spends way too much time making enemies and their newest targets seem to be our allies. That check is slowly coming due.

Snowden exposed how out of control our government is. Pardoning him would be one of the few things Obama has done that would actually make us safer.

Hold_It3433d ago

Congrats to Snowden. He had the balls to expose all the dirty things our country was doing, he is a hero.

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Edward Snowden made an app to protect your laptop

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.

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theverge.com
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Google's new chat app should be deleted and never used, says Edward Snowden

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.

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independent.co.uk
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The NSA Leak Is Real, Snowden Documents Confirm

A never-before-published NSA manual makes it clear that malware released by a hacker group this week came from the spy agency.

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theintercept.com