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Snowden keeps saying that US is still catching our emails

The British television host scored a rare one-on-one interview in Moscow with Edward Snowden for the Sunday’s edition of the “John Oliver Tonight” show.

A British channel hosted a rare interview with Snowden in Moscow, the interview was conducted by John Oliver from “John Oliver Tonight.”

Aside from jokes like “Do you miss a hot pocket“, or “Do you miss the state of Florida” the interview got serious enough for Snowden to explain one again that the NSA have huge intercepting capabilities, and that yes, it’s good to have these capabilities to fight “Chinese hackers, but now to use it against the American people.”

To support these claims, Snowden gave an example, saying that the NSA spied on UNICEF, does it justify to spy on UNICEF and other organizations? Which gain exists there?

He also told that inside the NSA, nude pictures are passed along, and it’s not considered a big deal. But as he said:

“they are still collecting everybody’s information”

Snowden also explained that every time people use let’s say Gmail, and an e-mail is sent to someone in America “your mail is kept”, or every time that you keep an e-mail and the backup of the email is moved around the world (without you realizing).

One of the lines that makes more sense for me it’s when Snowden says, that we shouldn’t change our habits of sharing whatever we want to share, just because the government its doing the wrong thing. We shouldn’t sacrifice our values, because of that.

As a last note related to this interview, the Patriot Act, active since September 11, 2001, continues working and is what permits from the US Government to do all these.

About the Author Elsio Pinto

Elsio Pinto is at the moment the Lead Mcafee Security Engineer at Swiss Re, but he also as knowledge in the areas of malware research, forensics, ethical hacking. He had previous experiences in major institutions being the European Parliament one of them. He is a security enthusiast and tries his best to pass his knowledge. He also owns his own blog http://high54security.blogspot.com/

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Edited by Pierluigi Paganini

(Security Affairs – Snowden, surveillance)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.