Does anyone know how much money he gets from every book / ebook? I think buying it is, at least for some people, very much a support Snowden thought.
I vaguely remember 10% as a ballpark for most authors
Edward Snowden: Permanent Record
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#12US expatriates are the only expats in the world that have to file annual taxes (and report foreign bank accounts). It's ridiculous for most of us (99% are not tax exiles or tax evaders, we just left the USA for our own reasons).
I wonder if Snowden files taxes?
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#13US expatriates are the only expats in the world that have to file annual taxes (and report foreign bank accounts). It's ridiculous for most of us (99% are not tax exiles or tax evaders, we just left the USA for our own reasons). I wonder if Snowden files taxes?
> US expatriates are the only expats in the world that have to file annual taxes
Did Eritrea cleanup their act?
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#14I really only want read the story told by Snowden's bank accounts and use of cash. Pretty sure this isn't that.
What are you implying?
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Offtopic: You were faster than my comment! I understand the Yubikey is popular but I do not understand the why the Wi-Fi dongle is popular. Any ideas?
Someone know a good 2.4/5.0 GHz wifi adapter for these kind of things?
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#16IRS is counting your book sales Edward, CIA and FBI might be the least of your worries ;)
I don't think he's ever going to come back to the US. He would be arrested on the spot.
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#17US expatriates are the only expats in the world that have to file annual taxes (and report foreign bank accounts). It's ridiculous for most of us (99% are not tax exiles or tax evaders, we just left the USA for our own reasons). I wonder if Snowden files taxes?
Can you give up your american passport and then stop or do you have to do it for the rest of your life?
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#18I'm going to 'recycle' an older comment of mine, pertaining to the comments about the book. The original comment can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20583363
I was annoyed that someone called Ed Snowden a 'Traitor'. Hopefully it gets a bit more recognition in this thread
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For me he made the Great Game of Privacy a lot fairer. You should read the excellent entry on Wikipedia about the aftermath of the leaks[0]. If the leaks meant that privacy-loving folk went 'dark' in light of the leaks, then this is a net plus. Snowden's actions possibly hindered NSA in catching undesirables, but it's a small price to pay for a bolstered Internet and privacy-respecting comms. And who's to say that the apparatus even worked that well in foiling the efforts of plotters? Bill Binney[1] consistently drives his message home that the NSA's surveillance apparatus is very inefficient at foiling plots, and I agree with him.
Even if it stopped one plot in all the time of its existence, it's still an enormous effort and an enormous amount of money spent just to foil one plot. Old fashioned police work is better at foiling plots because it doesn't have to rely on big data algorithms sifting through the noise of Internet traffic (most of which is innocuous). Old fashioned methods work because they employ simple detective work - it doesn't need the NSA at every choke point and decrypting countless crypto.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden_Effect
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_%28U.S._intelli...
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#19Or how about from a library.
https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=edward...
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#20I really only want read the story told by Snowden's bank accounts and use of cash. Pretty sure this isn't that.
What are you implying?
Sources and uses of funds are a much more reliable indicator of who someone is, who their friends are, and what they believe than the stories they publicly vocalize to themselves and others.