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Here's Edward Lucas, author of The Snowden Operation: Inside the West's Greatest Intelligence Disaster 0n my book Privacy for Me and Not for Thee: The Movement for Invincible Personal Encryption, Radical State Transparency, and the Snowden Hack
Here is @catfitz e-book on Snowden. Encyclopaedic, meticulous, gripping http://t.co/RIJYKK3Jt6
— Edward Lucas (@edwardlucas) January 27, 2014
It's interesting to me that two people from my two very different (yet similar) worlds of Russia and Second Life have written some short reviews:
o In "The Snowden Puzzle," David McDuff, a British translator of Russian and Nordic authors whom I met on Twitter, says:
Although the author does not claim to provide a solution to the puzzle, her book analyses its many and various pieces in extensively sourced detail, so that others may reach a conclusion for themselves.
Then on G+, John Jainschigg, a mobile, web, and 3D game and application developer I met in Second Life, has this to say:
Read This for Beneficial Discomfort
I love me some whistleblowers, don't get me wrong. And as for crypto ... So crypto, right? Wow ... But if you've ever tried writing The Ballad of Edward Snowden, and given up, half out of an inability to find simple, folksy rhymes for 'documents' and 'onion routing,' and half out of a sneaking suspicion that Woody Guthrie might not approve, you owe it to yourself to read this just-released work by +Catherine Fitzpatrick, which puts (ironically) a lot more information in your hands about these "stories about information" than mainstream media has (so far) troubled itself to provide.
Those strongly vested in the prevailing (progressive orthodox) narrative about Snowden may dismiss Fitzpatrick's effort. Lefties, in general, may find the work a little 'triggering.' It's not a comfortable read. But it is hugely well-researched and insightful, and (overused term) enormously thought-provoking.
I loved that -- "triggering".
Even Alan Kurtz, who panned the typos and grammar on the first Amazon review, still said my book is "Brilliantly conceived".
Keep it coming, and write a review yourself!
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