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I'm not quite clear on your point, are you implying that if Snowden had more perspective on the subject he wouldn't have become a whistleblower? The second hal

• agumonkey 7y ago
  Sorry, also I was only half way through the interview. My conclusion is that part of his reveal was clearly naive and that it doesn't have any value regarding citizens or national improvement (incompetence in big groups ? color me surprised). He would have been more beneficial to sleep on the knowledge for a while, filter what's important and find better leverage to make a change. Something less naive. When he talks, only very rarely I hear something relevant. At best, his good points are: - shift toward abusing surveillance technology - paradoxical laws regarding accountability of the government (you cannot have a fair assessment of government actions if it's illegal to look at it) - a bad government can abuse long stored data against you But really he's babbling for hours and very few comes out at even surprising. NSA had access to network/deep packets long before Google and even 9/11. Yes we all have smartphones.. boohoo, it's well known that these are potential privacy backdoors. People just don't care, or at best the rich enough will buy an iphone (if Apple is really that good regarding crypto and privacy). Again, that's just an opinion right now, if someone can shed a light on what's important in his case, please do, I'll read carefully. ps: there's also a lot of moments where he's mostly telling his life which I find disturbingly immature in tone.