I was just preparing for bed when I read fantastic news: journalists from Guardian and Washington Post were awarded with The Pulitzer Prize for publishing NSA leaks by Snowden.

NewYorker wrote:

It would have been a scandal, this year, if there had been no Pulitzer related to the documents that Edward Snowden leaked to several reporters

And I can only agree to that statement, as this award represents, at least, a moral satisfaction for Ed Snowden. But not only that, it also represents the victory for all of us on data privacy rights and in the end, the victory of truth and justice.







In my presentation "Year of The Breach", Edward Snowden was marked as the most important man of 2013. Why?

His revelations went so big that even The President (Obama) himself had to react

His revelations united thousands of people around the globe in a joint fight for data privacy rights, with several mass protest in many cities worldwide

in a joint fight for data privacy rights, with several mass protest in many cities worldwide His revelations started the movement "The Day We Fight Back"

His revelations started " Global Government Surveillance Reform ", a campaign started by biggest IT companies in industry ( Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, Twitter, Dropbox and AOL ), which ended with open letter to Washington (The President and Congress(, signed by all this giants

", a campaign started by biggest IT companies in industry ( ), which ended with open letter to Washington (The President and Congress(, signed by all this giants GCHQ chief Sir Ian Lobban had to resign his role after 6 years as chief and more than 30 years in GCHQ as employee. Newly named chief is Robert Hannigan.

In addition, according to the report published today by Infosecurity Europe, Snowden revelations also had a very positive impact on the industry itself.

67.6% of information security professionals say intelligence is not shared effectively between government and industry

58.6% believe the Snowden revelations have had a positive effect on making business understand potential threats

47.4% think the industry has a short-termist approachto information security strategies

Of course, there are some people, like Congressman Pete King, who still believes that Snowden should be held accountable for his actions. He even twitted about it!







I strongly suggest to read some of the retweets as many of them are seriously interesting!

This story and Pulitzer definitely made my day. And I sincerely hope they made yours too!

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