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Pardoning Snowden would still leave too many unanswered questions. If he's innocent, then a trial would clear the air. Otherwise, future IT workers will believ
by matchagaucho 10y ago
Pardoning Snowden would still leave too many unanswered questions. If he's innocent, then a trial would clear the air.
Otherwise, future IT workers will believe mass exporting SharePoint/file servers as leverage is acceptable.
While "rule of least privilege" is a good default access control policy; Gov and corporate IT departments are now over compensating their sharing policies due to the precedence Snowden has set.
- nickpsecurity 10y ago"Pardoning Snowden would still leave too many unanswered questions. If he's innocent, then a trial would clear the air." That's not true given it's Espionage Act. The ridiculous setup of that Act essentially says he can be hit with highest charges, not provide anything classified for his defense, have released entirely legitimate stuff, and still get convicted due to technicality of the law. Plus, our legal system is an adversarial one not designed to bring out truth: prosecutors aim for convictions while attempting to dismiss anything that undermines it. Best way to get truth, like him or not, is a pardon where he can say anything with immunity. If he's bad and ego-heavy, he'll slip up eventually. He already does on some things while enjoying the interviews too much. ;)