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No Place to Hide
- Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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Summary
In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the 29-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency’s widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security and information privacy. As the arguments rage on and the government considers various proposals for reform, it is clear that we have yet to see the full impact of Snowden’s disclosures.
Now for the first time, Greenwald fits all the pieces together, recounting his high-intensity 10-day trip to Hong Kong, examining the broader implications of the surveillance detailed in his reporting for The Guardian, and revealing fresh information on the NSA’s unprecedented abuse of power with never-before-seen documents entrusted to him by Snowden himself. Going beyond NSA specifics, Greenwald also takes on the establishment media, excoriating their habitual avoidance of adversarial reporting on the government and their failure to serve the interests of the people. Finally, he asks what it means both for individuals and for a nation’s political health when a government pries so invasively into the private lives of its citizens - and considers what safeguards and forms of oversight are necessary to protect democracy in the digital age.
Coming at a landmark moment in American history, No Place to Hide is a fearless, incisive, and essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S. surveillance state.
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-05-17
Great book - not ideal for audio
What made the experience of listening to No Place to Hide the most enjoyable?
Greenwald's argument is very persuasive and well-evidenced. This book made me sit up and take more notice of privacy issues.
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The parts where NSA files are read out get tedious - they'd be fine in print, but we don't need the full code number and title of every file to be read out for the audio version...
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- Honest Dude
- 05-03-17
Provides an eye opening insight to digital privacy
After listening to this audio I have changed the way I feel on the subject
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- Stepram
- 05-02-16
what a book I urge everyone to listen
The inside story and a fantastic analysis of the not sure much the data but the reaction to that data and the imprecations of the data leak.
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-04-17
Brilliant insight into the reality of freedom in the West
Fantastic audio book. There was always a suspicion that the powerful US may be tapping in to people's lives but what this book reveals beggars belief. Shame on the US government for abusing democracy to invade the privacy of people.
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- RJ Storey
- 06-04-19
loved it
an instant favourite
I'll be listening again
loved the choice of narrator
really great author
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- Mister Peridot
- 25-03-18
State of surveillance
Greenwald's book is a brilliant and sobering account of his crucial involvement in the reporting and release of the NSA security files by Snowden in 2013. He goes on to describe some of the documents themselves and their significance to civil privacy and international espionage. Finally he discusses the woeful state of the mainstream US media and how even the respected NY Times immediately attacked Snowden and himself often making false innuendos and allegations.
Greenwald is an excellent writer as well as being a courageous journalist, so the book reads easily and is indeed read very well by Mr. Ganser. The chapter on the NSA files takes a bit of stamina to get through as it involves listening to a lot of NSA jargon and repeated use of NSA phrases and acronyms. But there is a point to that. It brings home the attitude of the spying services and their unbridled, mechanical enthusiasm for eavesdropping on anything and everything.
Releasing state secrets is obviously a contentious matter. But if those secrets reveal routine lying and illegal behaviour by the security services then Snowden's action will be seen as laudable by many. And its no doubt significant that this was the reaction of Al Gore, Ron Paul and Jimmy Carter. Whereas Obama, Hilary Clinton and John Kerry all more or less condemned the man.
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- Mr Godwin
- 13-01-18
Great book
Loved it the story, some of it was a bit too technical. It has definitely made me more aware of internet privacy.
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- Glenn - Norfolk
- 13-08-18
Interesting subject - poorly executed
Having listened to Edward Snowden on many occasions such as at OpenStack, I was looking forward to this book. There are some interesting and worrying pieces of information, however the delivery of this is very dry and it became wearisome listening to every piece of information being prefixed by lead ins such as "top secret relevant to USA, Canada, New Zealand, TSSI by name redacted NOFORN". It is also apparent that Snowden did all of the work, Greenwald spent 9 months being too lazy to install encrypted software so that Snowden could discuss the information with him, it was a colleague who did the validation and initial work. That said, if you ignore the failings, the information is worrisome and if you had been told this unknowing or the Snowden case, you would think it was a wild conspiracy piece. Essentially if you do anything online, the NSA can access it via backdoors, relationships with the Corporations, fibre traffic interception, foreign parties security services, beacon installations in routers etc, 1984 has arrived and I understand why, but knowing this was done without the public knowledge or consent, and the lies and denials to Governments is the real issue as there is no accountability.
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- TvW
- 24-07-15
good book but might be better as a read
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I enjoyed the book although the voice I had to get into. It started off well and an interesting story. However chapter 5 and 6 included more acronyms than can be found in silican valley and so listening to it did not really work. Might have been better to have read it instead.
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- Ash
- 05-04-17
Bought on mild interest but was gripped throughout
The subject matter is right up my street but I didn't expect to enjoy the book so much, I was surprised and loved it.
Perhaps it's a touch over long in places but all round Greenwald tells a great story of a remarkable time in his life and uses that story to illustrate the dangers of government overreach.
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