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Hacker Movies Series Episode 8
Natural Born Leakers
Director Oliver Stone (JFK) points his camera at America’s 21st-century surveillance systems to ask if privacy is a thing of the past in the 2016 biopic Snowden. Can Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception) produce the password that unlocks the reasons why a bright young Republican turned sour on the Patriot Act and gave top secret dirt to the liberal media? And should we believe that Nic Cage invented a less invasive version of NSA’s Big Brother spyware program? Find out if Obama was right to call this controversial figure a hacker when you Donate today!
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