Snowden: hackers must make privacy tools for everybody

Charlee Gothard
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NSA whisteblower suggests 'criminals' unite to protect the world from government snooping

Edward Snowden has upped the ante in his war against government surveillance, addressing attendees of a hacking conference to join together in fighting snooping by building tools to help protect th...

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