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January 23, 2014 08:18 pm -06

Edward Snowden: 'I Never Stole Any Passwords'

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Edward Snowden denied ever stealing any passwords or persuading his former NSA colleagues to surrender him their credentials.

Reuters in November reported that Snowden had tricked between 20 and 25 of his former colleagues at an NSA base in Hawaii to give him their logins so he could access the trove of top-secret documents that revealed countless surveillance programs over the past few months.

See also: U.S. Privacy Watchdog: NSA Bulk Phone Records Collection Is Illegal

"I never stole any passwords, nor did I trick an army of co-workers," he said during a live chat, directly refuting the Reuters story that alleged the contrary. Snowden referred to the report as "simply wrong." Read more...

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