The personal life and thinking of the ordinary person who did an extraordinary thing.

A fantastic personal narrative of his life and thinking process. The book does not get into technical details, but, it will make sure that people relate to the different events mentioned in the book. It tells the story of a person who is born into the system and grew up to become part of the system, and then learns to question the same system.

I bought the book at midnight on Kindle (I also ordered the physical copies), slept for 3 hours in between and finished it off in the morning. Anyone born in 80s will find so many similarities as an 80s kid. Let it be the Commodore 64 as the first computer we saw or basic as the first-ever programming language to try. The lucky ones also got Internet access and learned to roam around of their own and build their adventure along with the busy telephone lines (which many times made the family members unhappy).

If you are someone from the technology community, I don't think you will find Ed's life was not as much different than yours. It has a different scenario and different key players, but, you will be able to match the progress in life like many other tech workers like ourselves.

Maybe you are reading the book just to learn what happened, or maybe you want to know why. But, I hope this book will help to think about the decisions you make in your life and how that affects the rest of the world. Let it be a group picture posted on Facebook or writing the next new tool for the intelligence community.

Go ahead and read the book, and when you are finished, make sure you pass it across to your friend, or buy them new copies. If you have some free time, you may consider to run a Tor relay or a bridge, a simple step will help many around the world.

On a side note, the book mentions SecureDrop project at the very end, and today is also the release of SecureDrop 1.0.0 (the same day of the book release).