Edward Snowden called for a complete overhaul of US whistleblower protections after a new source from deep inside the Pentagon came forward with a startling account of how the system became a “trap” for those seeking to expose wrongdoing.The account of John Crane, a former senior Pentagon investigator, appears to undermine Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other major establishment figures who argue that there were established routes for Snowden other than leaking to the media.Crane, a longtime assistant inspector general at the Pentagon, has accused his old office of retaliating against a major surveillance whistleblower, Thomas Drake, in an episode that helps explain Snowden’s 2013 National Security Agency disclosures. Not only did Pentagon officials provide Drake’s name to criminal investigators, Crane told the Guardian, they destroyed documents relevant to his defence.

An archive detailing a historic hack and its fallout has been handed over to the National Museum of Computing.Previously, the cache of documents, press cuttings and letters had been kept by Robert Schifreen, who hacked BT’s Prestel system in 1984.He and Steve Gold took control of Prestel and penetrated the email inbox belonging to the Duke of Edinburgh.The legal case around the hack helped define computer misuse laws in the UK and around the world.Full accessThe archive contains detailed information about how the hack was carried out and the two-year legal wrangle it began.Robert Schifreen said the whole saga had begun by accident.”I was testing a modem and was typing in random numbers to see if they worked or not,” Mr Schifreen told the BBC. “And one of them did.”The number gave access to Prestel – a basic, text-based computer system developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s that gave people an early taste of online information services.

Under ett år ska Maria Eriksson leva enbart genom delningsekonomi. Det innebär att samåka i stället för att ta tåget, att sova på en madrass på golvet medan de bägge sovrummen är uthyrda. Och när som helst kan det dyka upp en främling som vill låna hennes toalett.Hennes gamla jobb kändes inte längre roligt och dessutom var hennes lägenhet för stor. Då bestämde sig Maria Eriksson för att testa ett helt nytt liv: Att så gott det går leva och överleva enbart genom delningsekonomi.– Ena dagen kommer det en koreansk familj som livar upp hela lägenheten. Nästa dag kommer det två akrobater som bor här och försöker lära mig stå på händer. Det händer saker hela tiden och det är väldigt mycket positiv energi från alla de här människorna, säger Maria när SVT:s utrikesprogram Friktion träffar henne.