Former CIA (CIA) and National Security Agency (NSA) operativesSnowden just got official Russian status.
When Snowden exposed the US Prism plan, he was wanted by the US and the UK.
Now, Snowden, who has been fleeing to Russia for nine years, has finally obtained official Russian citizenship and can live in Russia with peace of mind.
Today we will review the prism plan exposed by Snowden.
Snowden did not go to college, and he retired early due to injuries after joining the army.
It stands to reason that his resume should not have anything to do with the core security services of the United States.
But in 2004 he worked as a security guard for , an agency of the NSA, .
may have originated from some opportunities, and in the following years, he has worked in the Security Agency, the CIA, and private service providers related to these agencies. And the job content is no longer a security guard, but a technician.
During this period, he discovered that the United States is indiscriminately monitoring everyone in the world through illegal means. In Snowden's own words,
: "Sitting in front of a terminal, , I have near-infinite access to the communications records of almost every man, woman, and child in the world, as long as people have ever made a phone call or touched a computer. These people include 320 million fellow Americans, whose every move in their daily lives is being monitored, which is not only a serious violation of the U.S. Constitution, but also the fundamental values of a free society."
This is Project Prism.
What exactly is the Prism plan?
In 2007, the NSA began a covert surveillance program code-named "US-984XN". In short,
means that US officials can freely retrieve any information generated by those telecommunications companies and network companies related to it.
The American technology companies that we are familiar with, such as Microsoft , Apple , Google , Facebook (Facebook), Yahoo, YouTube and many other companies have joined this prism in the United States intend.
They will let the NSA freely access and monitor the digital data generated by their users using their platform. Including our commonly used voice chats, voice calls, video chats, photo transfer, file transfer, sending and receiving emails, and filling in personal information on those social networking sites, they can all be monitored anytime, anywhere.
Imagine, for example, we usually use WeChat to send a voice, make a video call, or send a photo to our friends or family members, and there are people peeking and overhearing.
or we send an e-mail to the customer, and send a copy of the information at the same time, these things are very confidential in our opinion, and some people can casually look at them anytime, anywhere.
or the pictures, texts and videos we usually post on Weibo, Douyin , Zhihu , Xiaohongshu , and fill in the personal information on these platforms, even if it is your very private The trumpet can also be easily found and retrieved at will.
Let's feel it, even if we don't usually have any secrets, but this is like when you usually use a computer or play with a mobile phone, and when you look back, you find someone is staring at you all the time. Staring at you, even if this person is your family member, you have to be particularly nervous. Let alone a foreign institution.
Besides, who doesn't have any secrets in private? Do you know of any European head of state who would flirt with a secretary in private or something?
The old beauty knows it.
Snowden chose to expose it to the media because he saw the security agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom doing this kind of thing, so his conscience was overwhelmed. When
was exposed, he didn't ask to be anonymous, he just exposed his identity publicly.
But after the exposure, the run has to run.
, after all, there are too many such lessons learned in the United States.
For example, there is an American soldier named Chelsea Manning . In 2010, he disclosed some scandals in the United States like WikiLeaks. For example, the US military stationed in Iraq randomly shot journalists and civilians during Iraq .
He didn't run, he was caught and sentenced to 35 years. After seven years, Obama let him go.
But it's a little bit different from Snowden. The Bush administration did what Chelsea Manning exposed, and Obama can pretend to give him an amnesty.
But Snowden's decryption, although it was also started when Bush Jr. was in office, but Obama continued to do it after he took office.
and the murder is a one-time event, the responsibility can be returned to the individual, or manslaughter.
But no matter what outsiders say about monitoring, people have to keep doing it.
so it's really not good not to run.
and run, you have to pick a place to run.
For example, Assange, who created the wiki and decryption, went to the Ecuadorian embassy to seek asylum after the incident.
, , Ecuadorian, also said that he wanted to protect him. After several years, he still failed to hold on. Finally, he let the British police enter the embassy and arrest him.
is still fighting over the extradition of by .
So Snowden is very wise to go to Russia.
As for the news that Russia has recruited Snowden, I think it is unlikely.
Judging from Snowden's resume, even if it is technically good, it is not top-notch, and it has little practical effect.
As for some secret documents related to the United States, some years ago, mainly aimed at non-Americans, information monitoring materials, it is not very brave for Russia.
So Russia gave Snowden a formal citizenship at this time, which was a magical attack on the old America.
is not very harmful, it's just plain disgusting and disgusting you.
One last joke about this.
said Obama visited Germany once after the Prism incident came to light. As soon as the president got off the plane, he had a procedure. He had to greet the welcome team arranged by the other party. Obama took the hand of a little boy in the welcome team to express his intimacy.
But the little boy suddenly said: "My dad said you can peek at my computer?"
