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He's completely changed how people in the non-elite-security world view computers. Certainly his influence isn't limited to tech, but I think his impact on tec
by rdl 13y ago
He's completely changed how people in the non-elite-security world view computers.
Certainly his influence isn't limited to tech, but I think his impact on tech, at least IT and communications (god I hate the term "ICT"...) and startups and software and hardware... has been beyond any other single person this year. Or any company (2013 didn't see a lot of interesting products, IMO).
- derefr 13y agoI guess a better way to put it is that Snowden released the tech story of the year. But the story of releasing a story is a story of journalism and politics, not itself technical. Maybe if we had a figurehead in the NSA to point to who approved PRISM et al., it would make sense to call them the "tech person of the year", because of their being in the tech story of the year.