How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-snowden.html?pagewanted=4&_r=1
Once she began working on her surveillance film in 2011, she raised her digital security to an even higher level. She cut down her use of a cellphone , which betrays not only who you are calling and when, but your location at any given point in time. She was careful about e-mailing sensitive documents or having sensitive conversations on the phone. She began using software that masked the Web sites she visited . After she was contacted by Snowden in 2013, she tightened her security yet another notch. In addition to encrypting any sensitive e-mails, she began using different computers for editing film, for communicating and for reading sensitive documents (the one for sensitive documents is air-gapped, meaning it has never been connected to the Internet).