Edward Snowden on the accelerating pace of whistleblowing, and what it means for state secrecy
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1CN1F)
After Daniel Ellsberg's astonishingly courageous release of the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times, he waited 40 years to meet someone like Edward Snowden or Chelsea Manning, someone else inside who risked everything to expose the wrongdoing they had sworn to oppose. (more")