from 21st Century Wire:

“We trusted the government not to screw us,” said Edward Snowden. “But they did. We trusted the tech companies not to take advantage of us. But they did. That is going to happen again, because that is the nature of power.”

At the age of 29, Ed Snowden became an icon of the global dissident community – becoming the world’s most famous whistleblower, revealing the inner workings of the NSA’s mass-surveillance behemoth.