After years in exile, Edward Snowdon explains himself.

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EDWARD SNOWDEN, ARGUABLY the world’s most famous whistle-blower, is a man who lived behind plenty of pseudonyms before putting his true name to his truth-telling (https://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden/): When he was first communicating with the journalists who would reveal his top-secret NSA leaks, he used the names Citizenfour, Cincinnatus, and Verax—Latin for “truthful” and a knowing allusion to Julian Assange’s old hacker handle Mendax, the teller of lies.


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