Edward Snowden's Lawyer Is One Bad-Ass Chick
What are some of the technological luxuries she's given up to keep his secrecy intact?
I joke that I use drug dealer tactics. It’s a terrible way to work as an attorney, but you have to.
— Jesselyn Radack, the national security and human rights director for the Government Accountability Project, commenting on the lengths to which she must go to protect her most famous client’s secrecy.
Radack represents Edward Snowden, and in her dealings with him she has abandoned WiFi — it’s too insecure — and used burner phones and two laptops (one of which is encrypted). She accepts only cash payments and will discuss his case only in person.
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