Everyone is Altered

The secret Hollywood procedure that has fooled us for years: “beauty work,” or the Photoshop of the Silver Screen. “[T]he first rule of beauty work is: Don’t talk about beauty work.”

Source: mashable.com
Published: Dec 1, 2014
Length: 10 minutes (2,707 words)

Meet the Man Hired to Make Sure the Snowden Docs Aren’t Hacked

Micah Lee is the digital bodyguard who protects Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and other reporters working on the Snowden documents.

Since the beginning, Greenwald had stored the files in a computer completely disconnected from the Internet, also known as “air-gapped” in hacker lingo. He let Lee put his hands on that computer and pore through the documents. Ironically, Lee used software initially designed for cops and private investigators to sift through the mountain of seized documents.

Sitting inside Greenwald’s house, famously full of dogs, Lee spent hours reading and analyzing a dozen documents containing once carefully guarded secrets.

Source: mashable.com
Published: May 28, 2014
Length: 13 minutes (3,400 words)