February** Dynamic Incentive Program
Edward **Deng, the former indenter of the secret surveillance program in the United States, shocked the world with his revelations. Now, 9 years later, how is Deng's life?
Is he still fighting for cybersecurity, or has he faded into obscurity? Let's explore the present of this "hero" or "traitor".
* Deng was born from a privileged background, his family was financially well-off, his parents were both high-ranking military officers, his grandfather was a general in the Coast Guard, and he also had an older sister who worked as a lawyer.
His neighborhood is also a great one, with neighbors working in the Departments of Defense, Energy, and Commerce, and community recreational activities include golf, tennis, and swimming. **Deng has had a good education and living environment since he was a child, and it can be said that he was born a big step ahead of the starting line.
The young Deng grew up healthily under the care of his family, and in 1999 the family moved to Ellicott. Since then, he has developed a strong interest in computers and specializes in computer science.
He believes that computers are a world full of infinite possibilities and a safe haven for him to escape from reality. This love laid the groundwork for his later life. At the time, although he was passionate about computers, he didn't see them as a future career path, for him, computers were just his interest.
His biggest dream was to become a soldier and join the special forces to serve his country, as he was deeply influenced by his grandfather and father. What teenager wouldn't aspire to a military career?
Even in a country like the United States, where guns are banned.
In 2004, **Deng joined the army with a vision for the future and a firm belief, hoping to show his skills in the army, but fate did not seem to be favorable, an accident in training caused him to injure both legs, and in desperation, he chose to retire.
After his injury, he began to look for a job, and his fate took another turn when he entered the Center for Advanced Language Studies at the University of Maranli as a security guard. The language research center is part of the U.S. intelligence agency, and thanks to its outstanding capabilities in computer and information security, Deng went from a security guard to the CIA by chance.
In the eyes of the new CIA, everything here is full of novelty, and he is full of curiosity. In a short period of time, he quickly adapted to life here.
And after 9 months as a system administrator, he learned that there was a technical job opening overseas, which sparked his adventurous spirit. Eager to see the bigger world, he applied to his superiors.
Because of his good performance in the early stage of the trip, his superiors decided to send him overseas. You must know that the personnel who are sent by the CIA need to have a solid technical background and a wide range of learning skills, and **Deng is no exception.
Before he went abroad, he was sent to the "hills" to study, and with his extraordinary wisdom and rapid learning ability, he successfully passed the training and was sent overseas.
During his years at the CIA, he was not only responsible for cybersecurity at home, but even worked in the United Nations Mission, but as the years went by, he gradually felt depressed, and he found that this was very different from the fantasy he once had, he knew too many ulterior secrets, saw too much darkness, and finally made the decision to leave.
In 2009, after submitting his resignation to the CIA, Deng joined the NSA. However, he was deeply disappointed to find that it was not much different from what he had ever worked.
His enthusiasm for joining the army had been worn out because he found himself in an environment that was completely different from his expectations. Although he has a high-paying position that pays more than $200,000 a year, people envy him for a decent job, and if things don't turn out later, he might be a winner in life.
However, he chose to stick to the attachment to freedom in his heart.
Reveal shocking secrets, have you heard?"Project Prism"？This is a global monitoring program"911 Incident"Later, the NSA lobbied George W. Bush to sign it"us-984xn"The purpose of the program is to monitor the global population, including American citizens, in the name of counter-terrorism, pretending to be doing the best things.
They even enacted regulations to legalize the practice. Can you imagine that your birth, old age, sickness and death are under the watchful eye of others? There is a pair of eyes in the sky, always watching you, and it is not God, but America.
That's what they call it"Free"。"
The U.S. works with major corporations to monitor global citizens online, and no matter where you are, as long as you use the Internet, it will not escape its attention. It monitors not only its own nationals, but also the citizens of other countries.
The goal is to keep you under its control without any threat. As for the scope of the countries it monitors, anyone with a discerning eye can see that except for the United States, other countries are under its surveillance.
Even his own younger brother is no exception, which can be seen from the "Surveillance Gate" incident.
Intelligence sharing among the members of the Five Eyes Alliance, dating back to World War II, was originally intended to counter the Axis powers. At the beginning of World War II, communications and intelligence were almost non-existent, and each country fought on its own, suffering heavy losses.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States urgently needed to crack the Japanese communication code, so it sent special personnel to Britain to study, so the two countries signed an intelligence-sharing agreement.
After the end of World War II, intelligence sharing between the two countries continued, and in order to counter the Soviet Union, they enlisted three allies: Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and formed a joint alliance"Five Eyes Alliance"。
In its early days, the Five Eyes alliance was led by the UK's GCHQ, the world's largest intelligence-gathering agency. Over time, however, the GCHQ gradually declined and was replaced after World War II by the NSA, which played a crucial role in the US-Soviet struggle for hegemony, monitoring the Soviet Union and its allies.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, it was once thought that the Five Eyes alliance would disappear with the end of this era. However, this is not the case, and instead of disbanding, the organization has become larger and stronger.
With the power of science and technology, the original "five eyes" have developed into "countless eyes", which are no longer limited to monitoring a certain country or region, but include the whole world.
This change was unacceptable to Deng.
Faced with the pressure to decide to reveal the truth, Deng realized that he had to have proof. He began to consciously copy the surveillance data to the SD card, and hid the card in the Rubik's Cube and quietly brought it out.
Because his colleagues knew about his love for the Rubik's Cube, they didn't doubt his move to bring the Rubik's Cube. And just like that, he easily left with a lot of data.
Under the pretext of epilepsy, Deng hopes to be able to leave Hawaii to seek. The leader did not suspect him, so he approved his request. He then immediately fled to Hong Kong and hid in room 1014 of the Miramar Hotel.
At this point, he was like a frightened bird, because he knew that his next move might put his life in danger.
Due to his previous work experience, he has accumulated a wealth of "anti-surveillance" skills at Miramar Hotel. In his room, he closed the door, closed the curtains, and closed the cracks with pillows, quilts, bed sheets and other items to ensure the safety of the room.
When using the computer, he will cover himself and the screen with a quilt to prevent the hidden camera from prying eyes. Eventually, he handed over two top-secret documents to The Guardian and The Washington Post, which published articles on June 6 that made Project Prism global.
The NSA can directly log in to the world's most widely used private accounts such as Google and Yahoo, listen to the records of millions of Americans every day, and easily obtain information from major and multinational companies.
Nine international web giants, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, and Apple, are all involved. Project Prism has attracted global attention, and people are generally concerned about their privacy and security, after all, no one wants to live under the surveillance of others.
One is to obediently return to China to serve his sentence, and the other is to choose to flee to Russia. And he chose the latter.
* Deng's Mysterious Life: Married with a son, he no longer reveals the earth-shattering information as he used to, but keeps the heat hot with illusory rhetoric. Is he a hero or a traitor?
The truth is not yet known. Many questioned whether what he did was really as he said, a messenger of justice or a secret secret. Now that he seems to have been forgotten by the whole world, how long can he escape?
Let's wait and see.
He succeeded in bringing attention to the fact that, perhaps, as they say, time will reveal everything. When more information is revealed, we may be able to look back and understand his actions better.