This is just one of the odd, ironic details that emerges from the story of how Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge, two experienced journalists but security novices (and the friends who received and ferried the box) got drawn into the Snowden story as behind-the-scenes players. Thus the biggest national security leak of the digital era was launched via a remarkably analog network, the US Postal Service. This was Edward Snowden’s box-printouts of documents proving that the US government had built a massive surveillance apparatus and used it to spy on its own people-and the friend on the end of this chain was filmmaker Laura Poitras. The recipient, who didn’t know the sender, only knew she was supposed to bring this box to a friend, who would ferry it to another friend. One day in the spring of 2013, a box appeared outside a fourth-floor apartment door in Brooklyn, New York.
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