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Likewise here, but as I recall from a mix of interviews, articles, and at least one documentary the main steps were: (1) being reasonably picky about the journa
by racional 2y ago
Likewise here, but as I recall from a mix of interviews, articles, and at least one documentary the main steps were: (1) being reasonably picky about the journalists he chose to reach out to; (2) making sure they were savvy enough to work with, and understand the imperative need to work with basic encryption tools; (3) encouraging these journalists to be very cautious in their handling of the material; and (4) destroying any physical copies of the data he had before boarding the plane to Moscow.
Perhaps some aspects of the above have been challenged or questioned in the interim. But that's my recollection of the precautions he took, or at least said he took, according to those sources.
- mdhb 2y agoI understand this maybe isn’t obvious to people who haven’t worked in a high security environment before but that is so incredibly far from what would be considered acceptable or reasonable. Having said that I think it’s also a great example of how even he had no meaningful understanding of what he was actually looking at or the context in which it existed. Or at least that’s the most charitable interpretation of the useful idiot theory that I can think of. It’s also unfortunately a really good example of why credible people think it was an operation from the get go because those steps really only make sense to the general public.
- racional 2y agoIt obviously wasn't a high security environment; he knew some risk was involved, and that major governments would have access to the data eventually. If there were other precautions he could have reasonably taken -- that would also have been usable by regular journalists -- then you could state what they are, rather than alluding to them.