![]() Well, eventually Snowden did, and this fascinating autobiography is the result. You have to start thinking about your permanent record.” “Pretty clever, Eddie,” he said, “but you should be using that brain of yours not to figure out how to avoid work, but to do the best work you can. He stopped turning in homework until one day his maths teacher questioned him and discovered his methods. ![]() So he analysed the marking system and realised that it could be “hacked”: if he just did the quizzes, he could get enough points to get by. At high school, he resented the way homework absorbed valuable time that he would have preferred to spend at a computer. ![]() In the old days, a good hacker was someone constantly on the lookout for better ways of writing code and there’s a sense in which the young Edward Snowden was one of those. T he work “hack” used to be a term of approbation among geeks, as a means of describing an elegant way of circumventing a difficulty that had defeated lesser minds. ![]()
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