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Where Snowden gets recognized the most in public, in Moscow: computer stores

Edward Snowden in conversation with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen of The Nation. Photo by Nicola Cohen.


Edward Snowden in conversation with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen of The Nation. Photo by Nicola Cohen.

Funny little tidbit in a piece about Edward Snowden in The Nation.

The Nation: If you feel like just getting together and chatting with people, you can?

Snowden: Yeah, I can. And I do go out. I've been recognized every now and then. It's always in computer stores. It's something like brain associations, because I'll be in the grocery store and nobody will recognize me. Even in my glasses, looking exactly like my picture, nobody will recognize me. But I could be totally clean-shaven, hat on, looking nothing like myself in a computer store, and they're like, "Snowden?!"

Read the whole interview here.

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