Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. He is responsible for handing over material from one of the world’s most secretive organisations the NSA. Snowden is a high school dropout who worked his way into the most secretive computers in U.S. intelligence as a defense contractor and identify himself as the source of leaks about US surveillance programmes – PRISM. Snowden demanded all 41 pages of PRISM document be published, but neither Washington Post nor Guardian had the courage to publish it.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2013/06/edward-snowden-whistleblower-behind-nsa.html