Yesterday, Edward Snowden officially joined Twitter!
Scholars at the Cato Institute have written extensively about Snowden and the role he has played in the debate about government surveillance. He even made a surprise appearance at last year’s Cato Institute’s Surveillance conference!
Hey, Mr. Snowden, if you see this maybe you could follow Cato Institute on Twitter?
The “security vs. liberty” strawman argument remains the rhetorical weapon of choice for National Security State officials terrified by the spread of public encryption technologies, a development accelerated by Edward Snowden’s revelations of illegal mass surveillance by the U.S. government.
But, recent court filings by the Department of Justice and federal court records show that encryption use by criminal elements has not precluded successfully breaking up theoretical or actual terrorist plots, including those involving U.S. citizens here at home.
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The data released from the Ashley Madison hack has been making headlines. This past July, Cato’s Julian Sanchez was quoted in a rollingstone article on the hack and cybersecurity.
When Kelly Rindfleisch started working for Governor Scott Walker — first as a policy analyst then his deputy chief of staff — she didn’t expect all of her personal emails to be the subject of a search into the criminal investigation of another person, but that’s Wisconsin politics for you.
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