Matthew Mitchell had one of his first encounters with surveillance in the 1990s. At General Electric, his work usually involved repairing computers. But after a sexual harassment incident at the company, superiors asked Mitchell to retrieve his co-workers' search histories.
"They needed to keep an eye on the scientists," Mitchell told me in an interview during the recent Chaos Communication Congress, an annual hacking, politics and activism conference in Hamburg, Germany. But Mitchell refused to spy on his colleagues. He deliberately made the snooping tool look in the wrong place, so it didn't recover any browsing data.

 

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