DamianTV
12-30-2013, 07:45 PM
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/31/0051242/usa-today-names-edward-snowden-tech-person-of-the-year
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2013/12/28/edward-snowden-is-tech-figure-of-the-year-new-tech-economy/4213953/
"...But until a lone information-technology contractor named Edward Snowden leaked a trove of National Security Agency documents to the media this summer, we didn't know just how much we'd surrendered. Now that we do, our nation can have a healthy debate — out in the open, as a democracy should debate — about how good a bargain we got in that exchange. For facilitating that debate, at great risk to his own personal liberty, Snowden is this column's technology person of the year for 2013."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2013/12/28/edward-snowden-is-tech-figure-of-the-year-new-tech-economy/4213953/
"...But until a lone information-technology contractor named Edward Snowden leaked a trove of National Security Agency documents to the media this summer, we didn't know just how much we'd surrendered. Now that we do, our nation can have a healthy debate — out in the open, as a democracy should debate — about how good a bargain we got in that exchange. For facilitating that debate, at great risk to his own personal liberty, Snowden is this column's technology person of the year for 2013."