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I may have misread. Did Bruce Schnier just admit that he has Snowden documents on an air gapped computer, likely sited at his place of residence? If he is a "
by motters 13y ago
I may have misread. Did Bruce Schnier just admit that he has Snowden documents on an air gapped computer, likely sited at his place of residence? If he is a "US person reasonably believed to be inside the US" then I imagine that could put him on the list for a 2am wakeup call.
- ISL 13y agoPaging Mrs. Streisand to the white courtesy phone... Mrs. Streisand to the white courtesy phone. Thank you.
- SEMW 13y agoAm I missing something? What motive would the US have for raiding his house? It's not like the US is desperate to know what's in the documents. They already know what's in them. They're the US's own documents. They just want to stop them being published. Raiding Schneier wouldn't do anything to help with that, it'd just mean he has to go over to the Guardian's offices to do the analyzing - it's not like the copies he has are the only ones. The Guardian's already confirmed that they have copies at at least their New York and Brazil offices, and you can bet they have plans in case those are raided. (Last resort, they're almost certainly part of the august 2013 Wikileaks insurance release, which someone just needs to tweet the password for if somehow all the guardians' copies are simultaneously destroyed).
- minor_nitwit 13y agoThe US actually does not know the specific documents that Snowden took, or how much he took, because he was able to bypass their security. This is suspected to be the reason that Miranda was detained in the UK.
- junto 13y agoWhich is the reason that they now know what Snowden took.
- Everlag 13y agoThat might explain why I haven't got the textbook I ordered from him yet!
- Everlag 13y agoIRONY is the thing that happens immediately after you comment on HN and get the book in a priority shipping envelope!
- prawn 13y agoI'm imagining Schneier saying some of these things and then seriously monitoring his operations as something of a testing honeypot. Wouldn't surprise me if there was one somewhat secreted machine at his house that was rigged with triggers, and anything he was really doing with the docs and The Guardian was elsewhere and more heavily secured.