The Guardian is going to host a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) session to address any question regarding leaked NSA files and covert data gathering programs like PRISM. The session is slated to start on October 1 at 1 PM ET. That means that the session can be seen by Indian users at 10:30 PM on the same day.The session will be conducted with the both the paper’s editor Janine Gibson as well as Glenn Greenwald in tow. The latter has extensively covered the issue using thousands of secret files leaked to him and a number of other journalists by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
RT @guardianUS: TOMORROW, 1pm ET: @janinegibson & @ggreenwald host a Reddit AMA. Questions about #NSAFiles? Bookmark: http://t.co/nVRtN1mLOf
— Guardian Tech (@guardiantech) October 1, 2013
The session definitely has potential to answer a lot of questions that have been cropping up about the actions of the NSA and perhaps other security agencies. For instance, there is still no information about whether the NSA holds the private SSL encryption keys of major communication service providers like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. The methods used by the NSA to obtain these private encryption keys also needs to be clarified. The kind of hardware the security agency has backdoored has also not been explicitly stated.
The governments which have been exposed by these leaks have not been idle, though. Both Greenwald and the Guardian were recently the targets for a massive clamp down conducted by the UK government. Officials first arrested and detained Greenwald’s partner, David Miranda, at Heathrow Airport for nine hours, questioning him extensively about the kind of sensitive information that the journalist had access to and what he was planning to write about next. While Miranda was later released, personal effects like laptops, CDs and hard drives were confiscated. The Guardian itself was forced to destroy all hard drives that had information pertaining to documents leaked by the whistleblower.
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