when he hadwin snowden took the classified u.s. intelligence documents and make them public, he knew his e-mails could be intercepted by the same people that the story was about. the national security agency, his employer. so, he secured

when he hadwin snowden took the classified u.s. intelligence documents and make them public, he knew his e-mails could be intercepted by the same people that the story was about. the national security agency, his employer. so, he secured his lines of communications. glen gleanwald at the guardian at the time almost missed breaking the story of the nsa surveillance program because when snowden asked him to install an encryption tool called pgp, greenwald failed. he went to another journal ist who was better schooled in the dark arts of digit communication who got the documents to the guardian and eventually out to the world. one year into the snowden story, one of the biggest less options journalists can draw this: if you are no good at encryption, how can sources transcriust you protect their an animity. if that's the case, why would a source trust you with their story? this week, we are digging into what they call the deep web. a featured interview were the guardian journalist who worked on the snowden story. first, we will explor

when he hadwin snowden took the classified u.s.gence documents and make them public, he knew his e-mails could be intercepted by the same people that the story was about.