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Notes to pages 49-59 | 311 cHAPTER 6 Hacktivist 49 the group Anonymous: Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy, 1-8. 50 “My own forays”: Sue Halpern, “In the Depths of the Net,” New York Review of Books, Oct. 8, 2015. 51 Silk Road, which acted: Holman W. Jenkins Jr, “The Anti-hero of Silk Road,” Wall Street Journal, June 3, 2015. Also, Justice Department official who requested anonymity, interview with author. 51 “Tor’s importance”: Hastings, “Julian Assange.” Also see Julian Assange, intro- duction to Underground, by Suelette Dreyfus and Julian Assange (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2012). 51 Tor was a creation: Fitzpatrick, Privacy for Me and Not for Thee, pt. 6. 52 “the state is all-powerful”: Fitzpatrick, introduction to ibid. 53 “Meet the Most Dangerous Man”: Appelbaum, interview with Rolling Stone, “Meet the Most Dangerous Man in Cyberspace: The American Behind WikiLeaks,” Rolling Stone, Dec. 2, 2010. 53 In Berlin, Appelbaum: Packer, “Holder of Secrets.” 54 she identified herself: Runa A. Sandvik, Forbes, http://www.forbes.com/sites /runasandvik/. 54 According to an anonymous: Andy Greenberg, “An NSA Coworker Remembers the Real Edward Snowden,” Forbes, Dec. 16, 2013. 54 “Without Tor” he later wrote: Twitter, https://twitter.com/snowden/status /682257506018672640. 54 “Tor Stinks”: Sean Michael Kerner, “Snowden Leaks Show NSA Targets Tor,” ® E Week, Oct. 4, 2013. ® 55 He would later tell Sandvik: Runa A. Sandvik, “What Edward Snowden Said at the Nordic Media Festival,” Forbes, May 10, 2015. 55 According to Sandvik’s account: Sandvik did not reveal her encounter with Snowden in any of her blogs until eleven months after Snowden went public in June 2013. It was only after Greenwald disclosed in his book No Place to Hide that Snowden used the alias Cincinnatus that Internet investigators discovered he had hosted with Sandvik the CryptoParty. Sandvik then wrote her account of it. See Sandvik, “That One Time I Threw a CryptoParty with Edward Snowden.” Also, Kevin Poulsen, “Snowden’s First Move Against the NSA Was a Party in Hawaii,” Wired, May 21, 2014. 56 owner of BoxJelly: Fujihira, interview with author. 57 “The idea was to spread”: Morell, Great War of Our Time, 288. 58 “Snowden was not an NSA”: Former NSA executive who requested anonymity, interview with author. CHAPTER 7 String Puller 59 “It wasn’t that they put”: Gellman, “Edward Snowden, After Months of NSA Revelations, Says His Mission’s Accomplished.” 59 He used the same alias: All of Snowden’s post-party activities in 2012 and 2013 come from the Twitter account of “Oahu Crypto Party.” 59 The journalist to whom: The description of Snowden’s attempts to contact Greenwald in December 2012 and January 2013 can be found in Greenwald, No Place to Hide, 7-10. | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.indd 311 ® 9/3016 8:13AM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019799