Luke Harding, a journalist for the Guardian who covered the NSA, makes a similar claim: >I was writing a chapter on the NSA's close, and largely hidden, relati

Luke Harding, a journalist for the Guardian who covered the NSA, makes a similar claim: >I was writing a chapter on the NSA's close, and largely hidden, relationship with Silicon Valley. I wrote that Snowden's revelations had damaged US tech companies and their bottom line. Something odd happened. The paragraph I had just written began to self-delete. The cursor moved rapidly from the left, gobbling text. I watched my words vanish. When I tried to close my OpenOffice file the keyboard began flashing and bleeping. >Over the next few weeks these incidents of remote deletion happened several times. There was no fixed pattern but it tended to occur when I wrote disparagingly of the NSA. All authors expect criticism. But criticism before publication by an anonymous, divine third party is something novel. I began to leave notes for my secret reader. I tried to be polite, but irritation crept in. Once I wrote: "Good morning. I don't mind you reading my manuscript – you're doing so already – but I'd be grateful if you don't delete it. Thank you." There was no reply. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/20/edward-snowden-files-nsa-gchq-luke-harding http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/20/edward-snowden-... It doesn't seem absurd to me that something like this could be done to intimidate or gaslamp journalists.