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to a local diner called Zippy’s for a late dinner. She left Hawaii two days later. Not all the hacktivists that Snowden invited were able to attend. Parker Higgins, for example, a prime mover in the Electronic Fron- tier Foundation and founder of the San Francisco CryptoParty, wrote back to him that he was unabl
prevented the safe upgrading of the software. This auditing software was scheduled to be installed after the backup system was completed in 2013. The Kunia base was one of the last NSA bases that did not monitor suspicious transfers of files on a real-time basis. Snowden was aware of this deficiency; he
movement, including such well-known activists as Runa Sandvik (to whom he revealed his true name and address via e-mail), Micah Lee, Jacob Appelbaum, Parker Higgins, and Laura Poitras. “It is not statistically improbable that members of this circle were being watched by a hostile service,” a former NSA counterint
ns in the Pacific region and was able to monitor the ballistic missile tests and submarine activities of China, North Korea, and Russia. By 2013, the Kunia base had a vast array of state-of-the-art technology, including ninety Cray supercom- puters arranged in a horseshoe configuration, used to decipher
attend, Snowden declared the Crypto party a huge success in his after-hours report. One of the people Snowden invited under the alias Cincinnatus was Parker Higgins, who was a prime mover in the previously-mentioned Electronic Freedom Foundation. He now lived in California where he had founded the San Francisco C
ters storing these electronic files by working at Booz Allen Hamilton, a hedge-fund owned consulting firm, that helped manage computer systems at its Kunia base in Hawaii. On his application to Booz Allen in March 2013, Snowden claimed to be in the process of completing a master’s degree at the Universit
Entities connected to both Parker Higgins and Kunia

WikiLeaks
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Assange
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Glenn Greenwald
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Laura Poitras
PERSON
Honolulu
LOCATION
Ireland
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Woody Allen
PERSON
Ars Technica
ORGANIZATION
Barton Gellman
PERSON
Oliver Stone
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Albert Ho
PERSONRobert Tibbo
PERSONTibbo
PERSON
George W. Bush
PERSON
Hawaii
LOCATION
Geneva
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Mitch McConnell
PERSON
Kowloon
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Marc Rich
PERSONGibson
PERSON