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Snowden was clear in his instructions that he didn't want a data dump as some of the info was legitimately secret. Cryptome don't seem to accept this position.
by agd 11y ago
Snowden was clear in his instructions that he didn't want a data dump as some of the info was legitimately secret.
Cryptome don't seem to accept this position. The question is do we say to whistleblowers 'it's all or nothing'. Would that really encourage more people to leak? Or do we work within these parameters?
Of course there are conflicts of interest and mistakes when only a few can access the material, but I'd much rather have a partial leak than no leak.
- 2close4comfort 11y agoIt is hardly a leak of Glenn/Intercept keep them forever. That would go directly against what Cryptome has always believed. I would like to know how Snowden was connected to the people he eventually gave that information to, that in itself might prove interesting. It was not for their technical ability which does lead to the question how are they able to judge the suitability of what they release.
- gherkin0 11y ago> I would like to know how Snowden was connected to the people he eventually gave that information to Snowden selected Greenwald and Poitras and reached out to them via email: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-snowden.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-sno... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald#Contact_with_Edward_Snowden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald#Contact_with_E...
- 2close4comfort 11y agoDo you think these were his 1st choices?
- gherkin0 11y agoI have no idea, but the question was about "how he was connected" to the people he released the info to. The answer was: he wasn't until he made contact himself. He must've made a list of journalists he knew of who he thought would be sympathetic to the message he wanted to send. Maybe Greenwald/Poitras weren't at the top of the list, but some quick Googling doesn't reveal anything about anyone else he may have tried to contact before them.
- mirimir 11y agoYes. Snowden is an American patriot. Cryptome are extreme information-freedom fundamentalists. WikiLeaks is moderate by comparison, and vets stuff before publishing. But Snowden wanted vetting by professional journalists. So we have what we have. Bottom line, though: he got the stuff, so it's totally his call on how it gets released.
- flycaliguy 11y agoThis is just it. People seem to forget that Snowden is best viewed as an establishment figure who is trying to correct it's direction, not destroy it. Snowden's actions were a call to stop a surveillance state before the surveillance state stops everything. Or he's CIA and this is all agency drama... Haven't decided yet.