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I've read two Snowden books and Bruce Schneier's Data and Goliath. I'm reading this now for a discussion group which is going to talking about "how oppressive is our government, really?" Someone wants to talk as well about why authoritarianism appeals to certain people, and for that, I listened to a couple interviews and am reading the March 23 Nature article by Danny Osborne, et al.