
Readers are seeing a new side of Edward Snowden, this time on the cover of Wired magazine’s September issue, where the National Security Agency leaker cradles an American flag.
In the story, Snowden describes to reporter James Bamford an NSA program called MonsterMind, designed to prevent foreign cyberattacks and automatically fire back at the source of those attacks, without any human action. He argues the program could also be the biggest invasion of privacy known.