A Blimp Flew Over the NSA in the Name of Surveillance Reform
One way to announce a new campaign against NSA surveillance, I suppose, is to fly a gigantic blimp over the NSA's most important data center. That's exactly what the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Greenpeace did this morning, turning the tables on government mass surveillance.
Parker Higgins, an EFF activist, hopped in a Greenpeace-owned blimp and flew it over NSA's sprawling, million square-foot, $1.5 billion Utah Data Center. He and some Greenpeace activists flew for about an hour, according to David Pomerantz of Greenpeace.
"We flew for just over an hour, which is what we had scheduled, and landed as planned," Pomerantz told me in an email. "We haven't heard anything from any government agencies to my knowledge."
As I heard about the stunt, I was on the phone with the Center for Democracy and Technology's Greg Nojeim, a lawyer who works on NSA surveillance issues. He hadn't heard about the stunt beforehand, but asked me, "Is it armed? That's very interesting."
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