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> This seems to be transitioning from leaking to let Americans know how their civil rights are being violated into something else. Something else far different
by mpyne 13y ago
> This seems to be transitioning from leaking to let Americans know how their civil rights are being violated into something else.
Something else far different indeed.
China is not an evil country but they are not pure as the driven snow either. They are aggressively pushing to gain access to resource-rich ocean areas that do not belong to them under UNCLOS.
On the other hand China almost certainly knows better than Snowden does how they are doing against NSA attempts, if only because of their own counterintelligence. So if I were Snowden I wouldn't think of giving China that kind of intel, it can only harm his standing here at home (and with those Asian countries under China's guns...) and wouldn't even help China as much as he seems to think anyways.
P.S. Why is no one pushing for a criminal investigation regarding the process used to give computer geeks security clearances? :)
- abraininavat 13y agoIt's comical to me that everyone in this forum all of a sudden is an expert on Chinese-US cyber-espionage. Could you tell us how exactly you know that Snowden almost certainly couldn't have had access to intelligence that China would find useful?
- mpyne 13y agoOn the contrary, Snowden was sitting on a veritable gold mine. But information about the U.S. hacking China is hardly it. They see it just as much as we've tracked down their PLA hacking unit.