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Before his story broke there was an AMA on Reddit about govt surveillance, I'm 90% this was Snowden. Does anyone else remember this? The person spoke of these

by stef25 7y ago

Before his story broke there was an AMA on Reddit about govt surveillance, I'm 90% this was Snowden. Does anyone else remember this? The person spoke of these things happening in ways we "couldn't imagine". People were guessing at what he meant and his responses were mostly "it's much worse". One redditor posted some highly technical speculations to which the author responded "you're getting close". Reddit's search isn't good enough to retrieve this but I would LOVE to find that post again.

INTPenis 7y ago
Funny enough Google has great tools for searching within that time period. Snowden broke around Q1 2013 right? So I tried searching from Q4 2012 to Q1 2014 and the first thing that came up on government surveillance was actually this[1]. Which I assume is not what you meant but it's pretty early in the timeline of Snowden's revelations. Setting the timeline to 2012-01-01 - 2013-07-03 is just before Greenwald broke Snowden's story and those results are very different. Interspersed are results that were likely updated in Google's index after july 3rd so there are some false positives so to speak. You'd have to browse more of those results. I've only got 3 pages in.[2] Edit: Actually this IAmA from Cory Doctorow could be it.[3] He's definitely in the know about what the government is capable of and speaking from that experience. Which pretty much predicts Snowden's revelations. Of course I remember when AT&T was implicated in mass surveillance by a former employee back around 2004, that story just got lost in the ether. 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2wwdep/we_are_edward_snowden_laura_poitras_and_glenn/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2wwdep/we_are_edward_... 2. https://www.google.com/search?q=site:reddit.com+%22IAmA%22+government+surveillance&hl=en&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:1/1/2012,cd_max:7/4/2013&ei=TyJ5XeX6EICDk74P-JawyAo&start=10&sa=N&ved=0ahUKEwil3pjemcnkAhWAwcQBHXgLDKkQ8NMDCJkB&biw=1527&bih=1336 https://www.google.com/search?q=site:reddit.com+%22IAmA%22+g... 3. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/11bm9i/iam_cory_doctorow_writer_blogger_and_activist_ama/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/11bm9i/iam_cory_docto...
- stef25 7y ago
  It was an anonymous AMA, author specifically stated he was "inside" so not Doctorow
jmkni 7y ago
I remember the DefCon 20 talk, Bigger Monsters, Weaker Chains with William Binney - https://youtu.be/sqIz-RNUL1g https://youtu.be/sqIz-RNUL1g This was in 2012, 2013 was when Snowden did what he did. I always wondered if he saw this talk and was motivated by it.

by stef25 7y ago

INTPenis 7y ago

Funny enough Google has great tools for searching within that time period. Snowden broke around Q1 2013 right? So I tried searching from Q4 2012 to Q1 2014 and the first thing that came up on government surveillance was actually this[1]. Which I assume is not what you meant but it's pretty early in the timeline of Snowden's revelations. Setting the timeline to 2012-01-01 - 2013-07-03 is just before Greenwald broke Snowden's story and those results are very different. Interspersed are results that were likely updated in Google's index after july 3rd so there are some false positives so to speak. You'd have to browse more of those results. I've only got 3 pages in.[2] Edit: Actually this IAmA from Cory Doctorow could be it.[3] He's definitely in the know about what the government is capable of and speaking from that experience. Which pretty much predicts Snowden's revelations. Of course I remember when AT&T was implicated in mass surveillance by a former employee back around 2004, that story just got lost in the ether. 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2wwdep/we_are_edward_snowden_laura_poitras_and_glenn/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2wwdep/we_are_edward_... 2. https://www.google.com/search?q=site:reddit.com+%22IAmA%22+government+surveillance&hl=en&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:1/1/2012,cd_max:7/4/2013&ei=TyJ5XeX6EICDk74P-JawyAo&start=10&sa=N&ved=0ahUKEwil3pjemcnkAhWAwcQBHXgLDKkQ8NMDCJkB&biw=1527&bih=1336 https://www.google.com/search?q=site:reddit.com+%22IAmA%22+g... 3. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/11bm9i/iam_cory_doctorow_writer_blogger_and_activist_ama/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/11bm9i/iam_cory_docto...

stef25 7y ago
It was an anonymous AMA, author specifically stated he was "inside" so not Doctorow

jmkni 7y ago

I remember the DefCon 20 talk, Bigger Monsters, Weaker Chains with William Binney - https://youtu.be/sqIz-RNUL1g https://youtu.be/sqIz-RNUL1g This was in 2012, 2013 was when Snowden did what he did. I always wondered if he saw this talk and was motivated by it.