“The first thing I did after I heard about the highly classified NSA PRISM program two years ago was set up a proxy server in Peshawar to email me passages from Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. A literary flight of fancy. I started sending back excerpts from Gerard Manley Hopkins poems.”
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Cryptogams & the NSA | Warscapes
This is amazing.
(via morrowplanet)
I debated whether to step on your reblog, Mike. More that 99% of me just wanted to flat reblog this and let your very succinct, very accurate description of this tale stand. But that infintessimal part of me won, because I had to say: This is one of the best true stories I have ever read. This has no comparison.
(via tbmimsthethird)
Is this for real? Because if this isn’t, The Onion can just pack up and go home.
