Snowden calls on the geeks to save us from the NSA

Early Monday morning, more than 3000 people filed into an auditorium at South by Southwest to see a jittery video stream of Edward Snowden, the man behind the NSA leaks that have become inescapable in the last eight months. “The irony that we’re using Google Hangouts to talk to Ed Snowden has not been lost on me,” said Chris Soghoian, part of the ACLU team that put the event together. The audience was exactly what you’d expect at SXSW, technologists and coders, the kind of people who make tools like Google Hangouts. And, befitting the venue, all Snowden wanted to talk about was tech. "The irony that we're using Google Hangouts to talk to Ed Snowden has not been lost on me."

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