Ed Snowden's book is an interesting read and thought provoking. He is on the one hand a disturbed and selfish individual, but also a young man of principals. His computer skills enable him to perform programming tasks with ease and utilize tools to avoid detection. His life navigates the evolution of computing from a Commodore 64, to mainframes, to PC's, to cloud computing. His security skills allow him to read, write, execute, encrypt, and hide. His security clearance working with the NSA and CIA provides him access to the inner workings of the intelligence community, ultimately leading to his decision to become a whistleblower on the practice of mass surveillance.
The book is good at giving insight to the intelligence community, the "deep state", Wikileaks, metadata, cloud computing, and the potential threats of mass surveillance. I am not sure I share Ed's level of paranoia, however he does raise my level of concern that we are being watched.
