{"id":2300,"date":"2013-08-21T01:35:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T01:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2013-08-21T01:35:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T01:35:01","slug":"nsa-files-why-the-guardian-in-london-destroyed-hard-drives-of-leaked-files-world-news-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/21\/nsa-files-why-the-guardian-in-london-destroyed-hard-drives-of-leaked-files-world-news-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA files: why the Guardian in London destroyed hard drives of leaked files | World news | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Here&#8217;s the part that really blows my mind:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.166666030883789px; line-height: 14.999999046325684px;\">&#8220;I explained to British authorities that there were other copies in America and Brazil so they wouldn&#8217;t be achieving anything,&#8221; Rusbridger said. &#8220;But once it was obvious that they would be going to law I preferred to destroy our copy rather than hand it back to them or allow the courts to freeze our reporting.&#8221;&#8216; ]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Guardian editors on Tuesday revealed why and how the newspaper destroyed computer hard drives containing copies of some of the secret files leaked by Edward Snowden.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken after a threat of legal action by the government that could have stopped reporting on the extent of American and British government surveillance revealed by the documents.<\/p>\n<p>It resulted in one of the stranger episodes in the history of digital-age journalism. On Saturday 20 July, in a deserted basement of the Guardian&#8217;s King&#8217;s Cross offices, a senior editor and a Guardian computer expert used angle grinders and other tools to pulverise the hard drives and memory chips on which the encrypted files had been stored.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/aug\/20\/nsa-snowden-files-drives-destroyed-london\">NSA files: why the Guardian in London destroyed hard drives of leaked files | World news | The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Here&#8217;s the part that really blows my mind: &#8216;&#8220;I explained to British authorities that there were other copies in America and Brazil so they wouldn&#8217;t be achieving anything,&#8221; Rusbridger said. &#8220;But once it was obvious that they would be going to law I preferred to destroy our copy rather than hand it back to them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-B6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}