Snowden later takes a position with the NSA in Japan, initially under the pretense of building a program that would allow the government to back up all critical data from the Middle East in an emergency, a program which he names "Epic Shelter".
史諾登後來接受NSA在日本的工作，最初是建立一個程式的幌子，允許政府在緊急情況下備份來自中東的所有關鍵數據，一個他命名為「史詩庇護所」的程式。