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I'm not saying it was a hack, but I have a hard time when people, especially on HN, still believe the government / large groups of people can't do successful, m
by prirun 4y ago
I'm not saying it was a hack, but I have a hard time when people, especially on HN, still believe the government / large groups of people can't do successful, massive cover-ups after Snowden's revelations.
- throwanem 4y agoI'm not saying it wasn't a hack, but I have a hard time when people, especially on HN, still believe the government / large groups of people can do successful, massive cover-ups after Snowden's revelations.
- pjc50 4y agoYes. People have a hard time dealing with how little "revelations" change anything, even if they're true and not highly selective.
- jjav 4y ago> I'm not saying it wasn't a hack, but I have a hard time when people, especially on HN, still believe the government / large groups of people can do successful, massive cover-ups after Snowden's revelations. That's a fairly naive take. There are hundreds of thousands people (more?) working on classified programs to spy on citizens. The fact that leaks are so extremely rare that a Snowden is a once-in-a-generation type of event is plenty of evidence that very large groups of people do very successfully maintain massive cover-ups nearly 100% of the time.