Live Q&A with Edward Snowden: Thursday 23rd January, 8pm GMT, 3pm EST

[solarhydrocan]

http://www.freesnowden.is/asksnowden/

Edward Snowden will be answering questions submitted by the public on his official support site, freesnowden.is, this Thursday 23 January at 8pm GMT, 3pm EST. The support site is run by The Courage Foundation and is the only endorsed Snowden Defence Fund.

This is the first Snowden live chat since June 2013 and will last for an hour starting at 8pm GMT, 3pm EST. Questions can be submitted on twitter on the day of the event using the #AskSnowden hashtag. Edward Snowden’s responses will appear at http://www.freesnowden.is/asksnowden

The live chat comes exactly a week after US President Barack Obama gave an address in response to the public concerns raised by Edward Snowden’s revelations about US surveillance practices. In the live chat, Edward Snowden is expected to give his first reaction to the President’s speech.

Courage (formerly the Journalistic Source Protection Defence Fund) is a trust, audited by accountants Derek Rothera & Company in the UK, for the purpose of providing legal defence and campaign aid to journalistic sources. It is overseen by an unrenumerated committee of trustees. Edward Snowden is its first recipient.
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http://www.freesnowden.is/asksnowden/

[Thinkingabout]

1. Will he be answering all questions or justb the ones he chooses?

[solarhydrocan]

5. Boxers or briefs? nt

[randome]

2. Will he tell us what he meant when he said he "saw things"?

Nice graphic but Snowden is not exactly the poster boy for following the point it's trying to make.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]

[solarhydrocan]

6. What point is that? He saw something tyrannical and anti 4th amendment and he said something. nt

[randome]

7. Um, no he didn't.

He saw a legal warrant that he decided was tyrannical and a violation of the 4th Amendment. Reasonable people disagree on that. Problem with Snowden is that he was so introvertive, he could not see things from a different perspective.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]

[solarhydrocan]

8. Introveted? Here's how a co-worker remembers him

FORBES 12/16/2013 Andy Greenberg

An NSA Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'A Genius Among Geniuses'

Perhaps Edward Snowden’s hoodie should have raised suspicions.

The black sweatshirt sold by the civil libertarian Electronic Frontier Foundation featured a parody of the National Security Agency’s logo, with the traditional key in an eagle’s claws replaced by a collection of AT&T cables, and eavesdropping headphones covering the menacing bird’s ears. Snowden wore it regularly to stay warm in the air-conditioned underground NSA Hawaii Kunia facility known as “the tunnel.”

His coworkers assumed it was meant ironically. And a geek as gifted as Snowden could get away with a few irregularities

Months after Snowden leaked tens of thousands of the NSA’s most highly classified documents to the media, the former intelligence contractor has stayed out of the limelight, rarely granting interviews or sharing personal details. A 60 Minutes episode Sunday night, meanwhile, aired NSA’s officials descriptions of Snowden as a malicious hacker who cheated on an NSA entrance exam and whose work computers had to be destroyed after his departure for fear he had infected them with malware.

But an NSA staffer who contacted me last month and asked not to be identified–and whose claims we checked with Snowden himself via his ACLU lawyer Ben Wizner—offered me a very different, firsthand portrait of how Snowden was seen by his colleagues in the agency’s Hawaii office: A principled and ultra-competent, if somewhat eccentric employee, and one who earned the access used to pull off his leak by impressing superiors with sheer talent.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/12/16/an-nsa-coworker-remembers-the-real-edward-snowden-a-genius-among-geniuses/

[randome]

9. The man had -and has- no friends.

He tricked his coworkers into giving him their passwords. He abandoned his girlfriend without a backward glance. He never finished anything in life, including high school. If that doesn't paint a picture of an introvert, I don't know what does.

As for his 'genius' credentials, apparently neither he nor Greenwald understood that PRISM was simply a way for companies to securely transfer data obtained with warrants. It never occurred to him that it might be a secure FTP server.

Of course, everyone at Google, Microsoft, etc. could all be lying about this but...no.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]

[onehandle]

3. Question 1: What Is The Quality Of Toilet Paper In The Former Soviet Union?

Question 2: Ahh... Hawaii...

[SidDithers]

4. ROFL...nt

Sid

[snooper2]

10. Ask him how many usable IP there are in a /28 subnet

He should know that off the top of his snowy head, but I doubt it LOL

[DisgustipatedinCA]

11. VLSM is impressive to you? Weird. Every CCNA level course focuses on subnetting.

There's nothing very esoteric about it.

[snooper2]

12. Just thinking of snowy questions he should know...how about rattling off the OSI model?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

13. Please do not throw sausage pizza away.

Whether he's good with mnemonics or not, whether he tries using /31's or not, and irrespective of his knowledge of split horizon on NBMA networks, he seemed capable of getting the documents and distributing them. I think that was his aim.

[snooper2]

14. Well he was supposed to be a "network admin" but we know how those jobs go

I've been learning WebRTC on the side myself. Supposed to be the next big thing-

[DisgustipatedinCA]

15. I work at a place with a large IT budget

...but it's a financial institution, so we don't get anything too cutting edge through the door--routers and switches and firewalls (oh my!), and more videoconferencing than I would've hoped for. Here's hoping I'm not replaced by 3 Python scripts.