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Dave Dempsey

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4. 2. 2016 - 12:09

Today's Webtip: Doctorow goes Snowden

BoingBoing drops some new Snowden docs.

Things were getting a bit quiet around the Snowden releases. Well, either that or my RSS sources have just succumbed to their own short attention span and moved on to something else.

But now something new has finally turned up. And it has been revealed as part of a rather interesting package.

Exclusive: Snowden intelligence docs reveal UK spooks' malware checklist

That article is a look at some files that Cory Doctorow has access to and used as the basis for a new short story, "Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Extraordinary Rendition". That story, in turn, has been published in a book from Laura Poitras. The book is called "The Astro Noise Book", and was released to support an art exhibition. An exhibition entitled, oddly enough, Astro Noise.

I am still trying to decide how I feel about all of that...