New York Times – Noise https://noise.getoto.net The collective thoughts of the interwebz Wed, 25 Oct 2023 01:00:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 New NSA Information from (and About) Snowden https://noise.getoto.net/2023/10/26/new-nsa-information-from-and-about-snowden/ Thu, 26 Oct 2023 11:00:59 +0000 https://www.schneier.com/?p=68000 Interesting article about the Snowden documents, including comments from former Guardian editor Ewen MacAskill

MacAskill, who shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras for their journalistic work on the Snowden files, retired from The Guardian in 2018. He told Computer Weekly that:

  • As far as he knows, a copy of the documents is still locked in the New York Times office. Although the files are in the New York Times office, The Guardian retains responsibility for them.
  • As to why the New York Times has not published them in a decade, MacAskill maintains “this is a complicated issue.” “There is, at the very least, a case to be made for keeping them for future generations of historians,” he said...
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