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The US government has a tendency to hijack and weaponize revolutionary innovations, Edward Snowden said, noting that natural human desire to communicate with each other is now being exploited on an unprecedented scale.“Our utopian vision for the future is never guaranteed to be realized,” Snowden told the audience in Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada via live stream from Moscow this week, stressing that the US government “corrupted our knowledge... towards a military purpose.”They took our nuclear capability and transformed it into the most horrible weapon that the world had ever witnessed. And we’re seeing an atomic moment of computer science... Its reach is unlimited...but its safeguards are not!Also on rt.comYou’ve been warned: Widespread US face surveillance is ‘imminent reality’, says tech privacy reportThe whistleblower, who in 2013 leaked a trove of highly classified information about global spying operations by the National Security Agency, argued that armed with modern …