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Slightly OT but why do people point to Snowden as the guy who discovered the NSA surveillance in 2013 when the NY Times discovered the much worse surveillance t
by tootie 5y ago
Slightly OT but why do people point to Snowden as the guy who discovered the NSA surveillance in 2013 when the NY Times discovered the much worse surveillance they were doing in 2005?
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/bush-lets-us-spy-on-callers-without-courts.html https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/bush-lets-us-spy...
- seoaeu 5y ago> the intelligence agency has monitored [...] hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people [...] over the last three years That doesn't strike me as worse than what Snowden revealed. PRISM and the rest of those programs intercepted communications of hundreds of millions of people each year.
- rcurry 5y agoBecause Edward Snowden is the Miley Cyrus of SIGINT. Or maybe a Kardashian, I don’t know, it’s kind of a toss up.
- dredmorbius 5y agoSnowden was far from the first to publicise NSA surveillance. Snowden documented that surveillance in vastly more detail than had been done before, and deserves the thanks of citizens of the US and world for doing so. (I listed a number of pre-Snowden revelations a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27184956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27184956)