Event Details
January 01, 2012
Description
Snowden downloads NSA documents including 'Tor Stinks'.
Participants (1)
| Name | Type | Mentions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Snowden | person | 1249 | View Entity |
Source Documents (1)
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This document appears to be page 54 from a book titled 'How America Lost Its Secrets' (likely by Edward Jay Epstein), processed as a House Oversight exhibit (Bates 019542). It details the activities of privacy advocates Jacob Appelbaum and Runa Sandvik, and their contact with Edward Snowden in 2012 while he was working for the NSA and Dell in Hawaii. The text describes Snowden's support for the Tor network, his setup of a relay node called 'The Signal,' and his discovery of NSA documents (such as 'Tor Stinks') attempting to compromise Tor's anonymity.
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