01.02.2014 - 09:37 [ Techdirt ]

Guardian Releases Video From That Time Its Editors Were Forced To Destroy A Laptop That Had Snowden Documents

The Guardian has now released a short video that intersperses some commentary and news clips about the event with some actual footage of Guardian employees taking power tools to the components in question. As Rusbridger noted at the time, this was a particularly „pointless piece of symbolism that understood nothing about the digital age.“