Who's afraid of the NSA?
We don't scare that easily — or care that much. At least according to columnist Meghan Daum.
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The facts are still coming in on Edward Snowden, the guy who spilled the beans on the National Security Agency's surveillance of you, me and most likely everyone in America with a cellphone or an Internet connection. Right now, however, I'm betting he'll eventually be revealed as an angry white geek. He brags about his privileged access to data and waxes sanctimonious about his superior conscience, but he also carries more than a faint trace of doomsday prepper.
The programs he ratted out constitute, he said on videotape Monday, an "architecture of oppression" that could "get worse" with every generation that extends its capabilities. Put in layman's terms, he fears Big Brother. And he's willing to go to prison (or apparently Iceland, if he has his druthers) to help free the world from its clutches and put human history back on track.
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