I read Nowhere to Hide recently, really worth it if you can get past Greenwald sticking himself in the middle (start halfway through). The stuff in there is ho

I read Nowhere to Hide recently, really worth it if you can get past Greenwald sticking himself in the middle (start halfway through). The stuff in there is horrifying, and incredibly cute compared to what's possible now. The bottleneck back then would have been analysis, trivial now. Everyone in the world, especially our leaders, sit under a colossal, omniscient blackmail machine. I don't believe democracy can exist under these conditions.