Hasta La Gadget!

It’s fun to imagine the spy games that must have been involved in Edward Snowden’s exposure of the NSA’s massively invasive surveillance techniques. But, as NBC reports, a lot of that information came the way you might snoop on your significant others’ email: He stole some poor sap’s password.

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One can bet that there are a lot of people in Washington scoffing at this report right now. Edward Snowden is now known around the world as the former CIA technical analyst who escaped to Hong Kong prior to leaking a barrage of top secret documents implicating the U.S. National Security Agency in widespread electronic spying programs. The leaks continue to this day, only recently documents provided by Snowden revealed that the NSA has been siphoning off personal data through popular mobile applications in collaboration with UK’s GCHQ. Some might justify Snowden’s actions, even though the U.S. has felony charges waiting for him back home. Norwegian lawmakers certainly seem so, as Edward Snowden has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize once again.

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Edward Snowden Gets Second Nobel Peace Prize Nomination original content from Ubergizmo.

Another day, another round of leaks from former CIA technical analyst Edward Snowden. This man blew the whistle on U.S. National Security Agency’s electronic spying programs, and he continues to leak highly classified documents. Documents provided to The New York Times, The Guardian and ProPublica reveal that the NSA has been siphoning off personal data through popular mobile applications, internally referred to as “leaky apps.” Apparently the NSA has collaborated with its British counterpart on this program, the Government Communications Headquarter or GCHQ.

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NSA Reportedly Siphoning Off Personal Data Through Popular Mobile Apps original content from Ubergizmo.

The Washington Post just published the first interview with Edward Snowden since the initial wave of press after the 30-year-old former analyst’s leaks this summer. His main theme: Edward Snowden done good.

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It’s been nearly half a year since the first revelations from Edward Snowden’s leak made it into the press, but until now, we’ve been in the dark about exactly how big that leak was. Well, ladies and gentlemen, NSA Director General Keith Alexander is finally shining a light in that direction.

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