1. Snowden is great
2. Mass surveillance isn't

• "Going through my childhood diaries when I discovered that I bullied "Eddie" Snowden in the third grade"
• Al Jazeera timeline
• Revealed Documents at freesnowden.is
• NSA Primary Sources from EFF

While Edward Snowden has specifically requested that the story should not be about him, his story is indeed fascinating, and the actions that the United States is taking against him is very revealing in itself of the attitudes of the US administration.

This is a subreddit for discussions about Edward Snowden, the NSA, Prism and all related issues.

Relevant subreddits:

/r/StallmanWasRight/ Richard Stallman /r/PrivacyToolsIO Tools and Safety
/r/EuroPrivacy Privacy in Europe
/r/TheInternetOfShit Insecure things
/r/TrueBadBios Game over
/r/FirstAmendment not all there is to it
/r/GovernmentOppression not uncommon
/r/privacy Technology
/r/WikiLeaks Good journalism
/r/LegalNews
/r/Tor Anonymous browsing
/r/CyberLaws Technology and the law
/r/aaronswartz Reddit founder, open data advocate
/r/FreeSpeech International
/r/uncensorship Content removed from this sub
/r/undelete Top censored links
/r/unfilter Nice news
/r/DescentIntoTyranny/ The Republic is sliding
/r/Intelligence Here
/r/reinstatearticle8 Fight UK Censorship
/r/NSALeaks Documents
/r/altnewz Think for yourself
/r/CryptoAnarchy Doing it for ourselves
/r/SocialEngineering Wing it
/r/Stand Be counted!
/r/EndlessWar War is a racket
/r/GestapoNews/ Trolls
/r/namecoin Cryptocurrency/alternative DNS
/r/NSA NSA News

Introductory material:

• Surveillance Teach-In with Jacob Appelbaum and NSA whistle-blower Bill Binney
  
• The Julian Assange Show: Cypherpunks
  
• James Bamford's The Secret War - Wired magazine's cover story about the NSA's preparations for cyberwar
  
• Top Secret America - The Washington Post's investigation of the US' national security and intelligence system
  
• Tom Engelhardt: In a World Without Privacy, There Are No Exemptions for Spies
  
• Rancid Honey Trap: A contrarian view of events

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Useful resources:

www.prism-break.org
www.fixtracking.com
4 Simple Changes to Stop Online Tracking
The EFF's Surveillance Self Defence