Snowden's Box
The human network behind the biggest leak of all

http://harpers.org/archive/2017/05/snowdens-box/7/
Publisher:  Harper's Magazine
Year Published:  2017
Resource Type:  Article

Edward Snowden's disclosure of NSA secrets to the press as reported by the two journalists who literally had Snowden material mailed to them in a cardboard box. The article describes their experiences with encryption, codewords, government surveillance and extreme paranoia. The journalists also reveal that they were not the only people to have received Snowden's files.

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I spent the next two weeks barricaded in my house with the shutters drawn. I had a loaded shotgun at the ready for Miller, but I was afraid of going outside with the weapon: that could be a fatal move if the feds showed up for the Snowden material. Eventually though, I had to emerge to split log rounds for the woodstove, the building's sole source of heat. It was a Hobson's choice. When I went to the woodpile, I carried the gun.