Snowden asks hackers to protect whistleblowers
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Two of America's most famous government whistleblowers made a plea to hackers: Help future insiders secretly expose wrongdoing.
Daniel Ellsberg, who famously released the Pentagon Papers, and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden spoke to a packed crowd of computer experts on Saturday at the Hackers On Planet Earth conference in New York City.
It was a call to digital arms: Create easy-to-use software that lets insiders spill secrets of corporate or government malfeasance to journalists or politicians without getting caught.
"A lot of blood has flowed because people bit their tongues, swallowed their whistles and didn't speak out," Ellsberg said. "You people need to do what you can ... to make it possible for people to do this without spending their life in prison."
http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/19/technology/security/ellsberg-hackers/index.html
