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Meet the Man Hired to Make Sure the Snowden Docs Aren't Hacked

  • May 30, 2014
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In early January, Micah Lee worried journalist Glenn Greenwald's computer would get hacked, perhaps by the NSA, perhaps by foreign spies.
Greenwald was a target, and he was vulnerable. He was among the first to receive tens of thousands of top secret NSA documents from former contractor Edward Snowden, a scoop that eventually helped win the most recent Pulitzer prize.
Though Greenwald took precautions to handle the NSA documents securely, his computer could still be hacked.
"Glenn isn't a security person and he's not a huge computer nerd," Lee tells Mashable. "He is basically a normal computer user, and overall, normal computer users are vulnerable."

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  • Retired Webrooter
  • May 30, 2014
Interesting new job opportunity: digital bodyguard