USA Today Names Edward Snowden Tech Person of the Year

Posted by Unknown on Monday December 30, 2013 @01:10PM from the things-to-do-before-you're-thirty dept.

An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from the USA Today tech column: "...But until a lone information-technology contractor named Edward Snowden leaked a trove of National Security Agency documents to the media this summer, we didn't know just how much we'd surrendered. Now that we do, our nation can have a healthy debate — out in the open, as a democracy should debate — about how good a bargain we got in that exchange. For facilitating that debate, at great risk to his own personal liberty, Snowden is this column's technology person of the year for 2013."

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Re:This could be avoided by Anonymous Coward · 2013-12-30 13:50 · Score: 3, Funny

Do they still serve those cockmeat sandwiches?
Next in news. by Anonymous Coward · 2013-12-30 14:17 · Score: 5, Funny

"USA Today was raided by the Internal Revenue Service of the U.S.A. today."
Re:This could be avoided by EdIII · 2013-12-30 16:33 · Score: 3, Funny

The ketchup dispensers are serving lube and salt'n'pepper bags have been replaced with condoms.
Condoms? That's like eating a sandwich with the saran wrap still over it....
Re:If ever there was a "Conscience Award" ... by l0n3s0m3phr34k · 2013-12-30 17:53 · Score: 3, Funny

Shut up, big nose!