O Edward Snowden made a passionate appearance on Saturday inviting hackers and technicians to help aspiring whistleblowers to leak more government secrets.
Μιλώντας μέσω μιας μετάδοσης βίντεο με remote Google Hangout από τη Ρωσία, ο Edward Snowden απεύθυνε τα σχόλιά του στο ακροατήριο του Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) this weekend, a conference held at the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York.
Arguing that "technology allows for disagreement" as well as "democracy", Snowden said the only way for informants to continue their work is to give them the best tools to pass on secrets to journalists. to protect their communication, their identity so that they are not taken to prison.
To do this, Snowden said, he needed the help of the hackers and programmers who gathered at the conference, as well as those who watched it live. stream.
"We. you who are in this room right now have both the means and the ability to help build a better future by codifying our rights into the programs and protocols we rely on every day," he said during conversations with Daniel Ellsberg, who was a whistleblower when the Pentagon leaked the secret to the press in 1971.
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Snowden has suggested in a recent Guardian interview that he intends to work on creating such technologies, while avoiding further details.
Αισιόδοξος ήταν και ο λόγος του Ellsberg, ο οποίος προέτρεψε people που εργάζονται στην στην κυβέρνηση, καθώς και εκείνους που εργάζονται σε εταιρείες να βγουν και να αποκαλύψουν εγκλήματα και διαφθορά – με άλλα λόγια: για να αρχίζουν να διαρρέουν μυστικά.
The conversation between Ellsberg and Snowden was highly anticipated, and all the conference rooms at the Pennsylvania hotel were suffocatingly packed with people watching the two whistleblowers in giantdisplays.
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