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He might have an insurance policy. After all, he had access to other data so if they lock him up, they risk problems bigger than they could ever imagine. H
by _k 13y ago
He might have an insurance policy. After all, he had access to other data so if they lock him up, they risk problems bigger than they could ever imagine.
He may have written a program that releases the information on a certain date. Or someone else has a backup and knows what to do with it.
Either that or he's no longer in Hong Kong, sort of like what McAfee did, tell everyone where he's at when he's really no longer there.
So when Snowden tells the CIA their office is across the street, it's no more than a tactic to mislead the CIA.
Either that, or he hasn't thought this through at all and I find that hard to believe.
- jckt 13y agoI find it hard to believe that he can be anywhere so easily. The NSA isn't omniscient, but certainly it keeps close tabs on people that work with/for them?
- JamisonM 13y agoI would suggest that tracking former employees or contractors that had security clearance and did not misbehave while working for the NSA would be a pretty low priority to keep track of - and fairly numerous. Particularly since any information they did have that was sensitive would generally lose value over time. I would expect that most of the NSA's resources directed at specific individuals are directed at individuals that they have reason to believe are up to no good, not just tracking low-risk folks for the sake of tracking them.
- cpleppert 13y agoHe wasn't an NSA employee he was a contractor. They don't even know how many contrators they have working for them.