Comtief reviewed No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald
Review of 'No Place to Hide' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
My top horror book of all time and it's not even fiction.
260 pages
English language
Published May 13, 2014
No Place to Hide
4 stars
(48 reviews)
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State is a 2014 non-fiction book by American investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald. It was first published on May 13, 2014 through Metropolitan Books and details Greenwald's role in the global surveillance disclosures as revealed by the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden. The documents from the Snowden archive cited in the book are freely available online.
John Wilker reviewed No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald
Review of 'No Place to Hide' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
So I watched Citizen Four a while back, and think it helped in reading this. Though not nec. it certainly helped me remember parts of the documentary, as well as vicualize parts of the story as they unfolded.
That said, wow, good book. Scary, and pretty depressing, but good, and everyone should read it.
It's startling to see just how far our government (including the President i voted for and mostly love) has gone to erasing our privacy. How far in the pocket our journalists are, and how much we've willingly or otherwise given up in the name of (false) security.
Greenwald does an excellent job pointing out the lies (outright and by omission) our government and media have spread to convince us that we're somehow safer having either given up or (more often than not) had taken away our rights.
it's eye opening to see how bad it's gotten, …
So I watched Citizen Four a while back, and think it helped in reading this. Though not nec. it certainly helped me remember parts of the documentary, as well as vicualize parts of the story as they unfolded.
That said, wow, good book. Scary, and pretty depressing, but good, and everyone should read it.
It's startling to see just how far our government (including the President i voted for and mostly love) has gone to erasing our privacy. How far in the pocket our journalists are, and how much we've willingly or otherwise given up in the name of (false) security.
Greenwald does an excellent job pointing out the lies (outright and by omission) our government and media have spread to convince us that we're somehow safer having either given up or (more often than not) had taken away our rights.
it's eye opening to see how bad it's gotten, and how completely untrustworthy our media is with regard to our government.
Hirvox reviewed No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald
Review of 'No Place to Hide' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Bombshell after bombshell, but unfortunately I kept this book languishing in my wishlist for too long and saw the reporting first. So only the buildup and the aftermath were of any interest, not the descriptions of the documents themselves. Maybe it was because I listened to the Audible version, but those just seemed too monotonic to be interesting anymore.
mothlight reviewed No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald
Review of 'No Place to Hide' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
A book that, hopefully, will change the world. Or at least slow down the slide into a total surveillance state. The only real fault is that mountains of horrific revelations have been squeezed into perhaps too few pages, giving a pretty decent high level overview of the NSA's (among others) self-given mission to "collect it all" but not really giving lots of depth.
John B reviewed No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald
Review of 'No Place to Hide' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This book covers what happened, why we should care and why the people involved did what they did. It almost put me in a spot where I'm a little worried to admit I read it and agree, but I figure the NSA already knows I've read it, and I know the email and calls to my senators and representatives has already been logged, and probably already has marked me as subversive.
Scary, and puts me in a mind to be less and less a participant in our new digital world, until things become more locked down and secure for the regular joes.
