NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden opened the Free Software Foundation’s LibrePlanet 2016 conference on Saturday with a discussion of free software, privacy, and security, speaking via video conference from Russia.
Snowden credited free software for his ability to help disclose the U.S. government’s far-reaching surveillance projects — drawing one of several enthusiastic rounds of applause from the crowd in an MIT lecture hall.
“What happened in 2013 couldn’t have happened without free software,” he said, particularly citing projects like Tor, Tails (a highly secure Linux distribution) and Debian.
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