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gotta feel bad for snowden's naivete that he thought his big disclosures would resonate with the public at large. All we got in the years since was more survei

gotta feel bad for snowden's naivete that he thought his big disclosures would resonate with the public at large. All we got in the years since was more surveillance and for him, a life in exile.

irishcoffee 8mo ago
Snowden's naivete was grounded in arrogance. It sure wouldn't have been hard to create a digital deadman that released his information while he stayed in the country leveraging whistleblower protection. Or, he could have found his version of deepthroat and told his story. Or, he dumps everything on 4chan or on the Tor network and let someone else expose it... if all he actually cared about was exposing the moral ineptitude of the US. Alas no, he was much more interested in the attention and TV interviews. He lives in exile because he wasn't interested in whistleblowing.
- fc417fc802 8mo ago
  You really think he could have dumped all of that without having it traced back to him? Aren't these audited systems?
  - irishcoffee 8mo ago
    Yes, I think he could have. He didn't want to cover his tracks. Leaking information to the media is falling-off-a-log easy. The best journalists will tell you to your face "I'll go to jail before I give up a source"
    - fc417fc802 8mo ago
      It's not a matter of a journalist giving up his source. The issue is the sheer quantity of data leaked and the fact that the systems are (I assume) audited. Barring a security exploit I assume it would have been trivial to identify the responsible accounts. If you believe otherwise I'm open to your theory but I think it is on you to provide a plausible explanation here.
      - irishcoffee 8mo ago
        The journalist doesn’t need to leak all of the documents, they need to tell the story, with like… 3% of the docs. This again leads me back to, Snowden didn’t give a fuck about whistleblowing. He just didn’t.
- Starman_Jones 8mo ago
  My guy, there were double-digit number of people who had his level of access to both foreign surveillance and domestic surveillance. They were going to find him out, so he did away with pretense and put his name on it.

gotta feel bad for snowden's naivete that he thought his big disclosures would resonate with the public at large. All we got in the years since was more surveillance and for him, a life in exile.

irishcoffee 8mo ago

Snowden's naivete was grounded in arrogance. It sure wouldn't have been hard to create a digital deadman that released his information while he stayed in the country leveraging whistleblower protection. Or, he could have found his version of deepthroat and told his story. Or, he dumps everything on 4chan or on the Tor network and let someone else expose it... if all he actually cared about was exposing the moral ineptitude of the US. Alas no, he was much more interested in the attention and TV interviews. He lives in exile because he wasn't interested in whistleblowing.

fc417fc802 8mo ago
You really think he could have dumped all of that without having it traced back to him? Aren't these audited systems?
- irishcoffee 8mo ago
  Yes, I think he could have. He didn't want to cover his tracks. Leaking information to the media is falling-off-a-log easy. The best journalists will tell you to your face "I'll go to jail before I give up a source"
  - fc417fc802 8mo ago
    It's not a matter of a journalist giving up his source. The issue is the sheer quantity of data leaked and the fact that the systems are (I assume) audited. Barring a security exploit I assume it would have been trivial to identify the responsible accounts. If you believe otherwise I'm open to your theory but I think it is on you to provide a plausible explanation here.
    - irishcoffee 8mo ago
      The journalist doesn’t need to leak all of the documents, they need to tell the story, with like… 3% of the docs. This again leads me back to, Snowden didn’t give a fuck about whistleblowing. He just didn’t.
Starman_Jones 8mo ago
My guy, there were double-digit number of people who had his level of access to both foreign surveillance and domestic surveillance. They were going to find him out, so he did away with pretense and put his name on it.