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Is Greenwald technical enough to understand the content? Or is it just going to be buzzwords that have no real technical meaning? The slice deck already looks

• ceejayoz 13y ago
  That the slide deck isn't technical doesn't mean Snowden didn't have access to the technical stuff too. Greenwald presumably has plenty of access to technical advisors at the Guardian and elsewhere who can help sift through.
  • eightyone 13y ago
    Haven't you got the memo yet? According to the media we can't trust Snowden because he didn't graduate high school.
• mattzito 13y ago
  I suspect that Greenwald is not nearly technical enough to understand the content - not that he's not a bright guy, but the level of technical nuance here might be significant. So then it's all about the quality of the advisors they have access to, but given the nature of the materials, I suspect few people have been able to see them. We just won't know till the whole thing gets released, if ever. And to the second point, obviously I couldn't know for sure, not having seen it, but it's very very common with these types of presentations within government agencies and defense contractors to have 5-10 overview slides, the conclusion, and then behind that 20 reference slides that are more of an information dump. The idea is that the first set of slides is enough for most people, but if you want to dig deeper, there's additional detail.