When asked about the decision to let Stone direct the story of his life, Snowden talked about the complexity of being a public figure.
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The three stepped out for the Snowden panel along with director Oliver Stone where they debuted a brand new trailer for the thriller. But the search for profits is enormous here.
(Wait, what?) Snowden stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt – apparently now your go-to guy for biopics about people they’ve already made perfectly good documentaries about – as the NSA whistleblower, under the direction of Oliver Stone.
“It is everywhere. It’s what some people call surveillance capitalism … It’s the newest stage”, he said.
“You’ll see a new form of, frankly, a robot society. It’s what you call totalitarianism”.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden will be live-streamed from his exile in Moscow in theaters nationwide following a special screening of the Oliver Stone film “Snowden” on September 14. Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor, said Thursday that he planned to help develop a modified version of Apple’s iPhone for journalists who are concerned that they may be the target of government surveillance. It will keep a constant check on the handset’s internal antennas to detect incoming and outgoing signals from the cellular, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Global Positioning System chips. During Thursday’s conference on Forbidden Research at MIT’s Media Lab, Snowden detailed plans to present designs for the case-like accessory that connects into the iPhone’s inner workings through its SIM card slot to monitor the electrical signals sent to the iPhone’s internal antennas.
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It will include its very own CPU, separate from the phone’s processor in order to avoid it being infected by any malware from the phone itself.
