"I tore open the envelope and found two USB thumb drives" and instructions for using the programs, Greenwald writes. FedEx says that the package is being held in customs for "reasons unknown". He doesn't know what it will contain – a computer program or the secret and incriminating US government documents themselves – but nothing comes on the scheduled day of delivery. Eventually Greenwald receives word that a Federal Express package has been sent and will arrive in a couple of days. Only then will materials be sent to him since, as Snowden puts it, encryption is "not just for spies and philanderers". A t the outset of Glenn Greenwald's communications with the "anonymous leaker" later identified as 29-year-old former NSA employee Edward Snowden, Greenwald – a journalist, blogger and former lawyer – and the film-maker Laura Poitras, with whom he is collaborating, are told to use a PGP ("pretty good privacy") encryption package.
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