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Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower

WIRED Threat Level

Book excerpt: As a systems administrator, the young man who would expose vast, secret US surveillance saw freedom being encroached and decided he had to act.

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The Challenges in Building Digital Trust

SecureWorld News

According to Cliff Stoll, author of the book The Cuckoo's Egg , the community was small, and the level of trust was very high. System administrators didn't bother locking down their systems, because the possibility of bad actors using them didn't really cross their minds.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Ethical Hacking

ForAllSecure

When people feel threatened by it they want to throw the book at Yeah. I wrote a book with Kevin Mitnick, a convicted felon. I've often advised people to pursue that path that really get a solid foundation on the legacy technology or legacy concepts of coding, networking and system administration type stuff.

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