In the basement of the King’s Cross, London office of the Guardian, something unusual happened on July 20, 2013. Two Government Communications Headquarters technicians oversaw the Guardian’s editors and journalists use a drill, angle grinders and a degausser to destroy four laptop computers and obliterate all data stored on them. These computers
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The Guardian’s organized computer destruction represents just one chapter of a governmental “freak-out,” in which the British government was unprepared for its secrets to come out.