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Citizenfour is a movie about a man who was an employee of the NSA (National Security Agency) and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and he reveals the secrets of these two american corporations.The name Citizenfour was given because the woman who did this movie (Laura Poitras) was receiving messages from an unknown person that had he's name as Citizenfour. Edward Snowden was Citizenfour he send a crippled message to Laura Poitras that said “You asked why i picked you. I didn’t. you did. The surveillance you've experienced means you've been selected a term which will mean more to you as you learn about how the modern SIGINT system works. For now, know that every border you cross, every purchase you make, every call you dial, every cell phone …show more content…
During the cold war, he analyzed nuclear threats. In the 90s, he shifted his focus to the internet and developed methods of mass data analysis. William went to the military for 4 years and then directly went to the National Security Agency for 33 years so he had the total of 37 service years.William Binney said that when 9/11 happened the National Security Agency started thinking about spying all the United States and when they got to a conclusion they did it so additionally to that William said that from one week they had about twenty million at AT&T,in months there were billions of phones intercepted from all phone company.This isn't the fist time that people hear this about the National Security Intelligence,in 2006 there was a court that an unknown man said that he was being spied by the National Security Intelligence but the court didn't got concluded, another man who was investigating about this he rent a room and delivered posters to all Time Square and there were in the room like 50 people so basically he's talking the same thing that Edward Snowden.Snowden is revealing its because its a hard secret to maintain, are people who cant maintain …show more content…
Edward said that they could see all in the United States at any time lets say computers,cellphones,ATM,etc. Edward says that internet isn't what was before the spying system activated.Edward said that he feels better to saying the true things to other people than occulting it.There is a infrastructure in place in the United States that the National Security Agency has built that intercepts any analogue communication, any radio communication, every system of communication. So if someone wanted to see you,to know were you are they what all had to do is to use a selector and search for email address or IP addresses when they find you the can see also your passwords of all the internet social media you had.TEMPURA is the program that sores all the metadata,Edward says that he can do the process to see everything with just put in an USB to a computer and wait a few minutes.Personally im not ok because its a private life no one has to spy us on what we are doing and if i lived on the United States i would be terrorized because im connected all

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