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tary/snowden-transcript. 46 bragged to James Risen: Risen, “Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files to Russia.” 47 this counterculture is “tormented”: Shils, Torment of Secrecy. 47 “|The elites] know everything”: Roy, “Edward Snowden Meets Arundhati Roy and John Cusack.” 47 “What do you think”: Gellman,

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and Ines Talakic Snowden’s home in Hawaii: Courtesy Ena and Ines Talakic Lindsay Mills: Luis Silos NSA headquarters: AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File Jacob Appelbaum: Axel Heimken via AP Images Runa Sandvik: AP Photo/John Locher CryptoParty: Courtesy Ena and Ines Talakic Anatoly Kucherena: AP Photo/Alexander Zemli

s brilliantly dissects the fascination with secrecy among individuals who fear that government agencies will use covert machinations against them. In Shils’s concept, this counterculture is “tormented” by the govern- ment’s possession of knowledge unavailable to them. Members of this culture tend to beli

ates. Its staff worked mainly out of a single room in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The guiding spirit behind the Tor movement in the private sector was Jacob Appelbaum, a charismatic twenty-eight-year-old who had grown up in Northern California. Like Snowden, he had dropped out of high school. Appelbaum identified h

with secrecy among individuals on all ends of the political spectrum who fear that government agencies will use covert machinations against them. In Shils’ concept, this anti- government counter-culture is “tormented” by the government’s possession of knowledge unavailable to them. Those who subscribe t

nia, and the United States. Its staff worked mainly out of a single room in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The guiding spirit behind the TOR movement was Jacob Appelbaum, a charismatic 28-year old who had grown up in northern California. Like Snowden, he had dropped out of high school. Appelbaum identified himself to