Edward Snowden Should Talk About Cyberwar More Often

We ’re all sick of used to hearing Edward Snowden sing about NSA surveillance by now . We get it : The government ’s watching us , and there ’s basically nothing we can do about it . But PBSjust published the transcript of an consultation with Snowdenthat does n’t really talk about surveillance much at all . It ’s all about cyber-terrorism , and it ’s fascinating .

In the midst ofcomprehending Snowden - as - renown - whistleblower , it ’s well-off to forget that he ’s in reality a very experienced cybersecurity expert . This untried man spent years on the frontlines of America ’s still but fierce battle to protect our internet infrastructure . But as Snowden points out in his consultation with James Bamford from PBS ’s technical school show NOVA Next , agencies like the NSA in reality devote more resourcefulness towards launching cyberattacks . In other words , the folks that should be pore on defending our nation in an imminent cyberwarare too busy focalize on the offense .

Though the audience was filmed last June , PBSjust released the unedited transcriptand a abbreviated picture . The transcript is very long but full of goodies , if you ’re rum about how cybersecurity really work out at the national defense level . After the Sony cab , we all know that it ’s a glaringly important theme . But Snowden really does a great job of break the nuances of cyber-terrorism down into some easy digestible nugget .