Meet the Man Hired to Make Sure the S**wden Docs Aren't Hacked

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Meet the Man Hired to Make Sure the S**wden Docs Aren't Hacked
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In early January, Micah Lee worried journalist Glenn Greenwald's computer would get hacked, perhaps by the NSA (http://mashable.com/category/nsa/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), perhaps by foreign spies.

Greenwald was a target, and he was vulnerable. He was among the first to receive tens of thousands of top secret NSA documents from former contractor Edward S**wden (http://mashable.com/category/edward-s**wden/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), a scoop that eventually helped win the most recent Pulitzer prize (http://mashable.com/2014/04/14/pulitzer-greenwald-poitras-s**wden/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss).

Though Greenwald took precautions to handle the NSA documents securely, his computer could still be hacked.

"Glenn isn't a security person and he's **t a huge computer nerd," Lee tells Mashable. "He is basically a **rmal computer user, and overall, **rmal computer users are vulnerable." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/27/micah-lee-greenwald-s**wden/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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