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Think of it from the executives perspective: Option A: keep mouth shut, make a shit ton of money Option B: become a martyr, face prison time People like Snow
by ye 13y ago
Think of it from the executives perspective:
Option A: keep mouth shut, make a shit ton of money
Option B: become a martyr, face prison time
People like Snowden are rare.
- pekk 13y agoAnd what if it were very common to take jobs just to hack the internal network, scour it for sensitive-looking data, and dump it all publicly for the sake of fame? I am pretty sure most "executives" would not be happy with that norm
- ye 13y agoMy guess is that most people educated enough and promoted enough to get access to such information wouldn't risk years of efforts for potential fame. I'd say most of the whistle-blowers want to remain anonymous.
- InclinedPlane 13y agoThose aren't the only options. Anyone with any smarts can figure out how to quietly and anonymously leak a lot of these details. The fact is that they were too cowardly to do even that though.
- ye 13y agoAs somebody who has been in IT for almost two decades, I can't think of a safe way to get a file off our corporate LAN without leaving a trail leading to me. I realize it's an argument from ignorance fallacy, and maybe there are such ways, but I'm not aware of them.
- PeterisP 13y agoThese aren't the details that need to be 'leaked' anonymously - the whole point for the original suggestion to work as intended requires a public claim from aranking officer of that company; the actual info isn't important but the public testimony is.
- psykovsky 13y agoIf they do it anonymously nobody will believe the docs and say they are just elaborate hoaxes by tinfoil hatters...
- enraged_camel 13y ago>>People like Snowden are rare. In all honesty, Snowden is a 30 year old single dude, and as far as I know, he doesn't have kids. Do you think he would have done what he did if he had a family to look after? In my opinion a person's first responsibility is to their family. So yeah, if you're married (like these executives probably are) and you're facing the choice between option A and option B, you should absolutely pick option A.
- im3w1l 13y agoMaybe, we, as a community, could lessen that dilemma by helping the families of martyrs.
- dllthomas 13y agoAlso, to reward the hiring of whistle-blowers. A company that hires people with a history of raising the alarm should be more trustworthy.
- ye 13y agoSnowden had a girlfriend, AFAIK.
- mistermumble 13y agoA high salary, a hot girlfriend, nice house in Hawaii. Good relationship with parents. I'd say that is a lot to give up, in order to take the risk of being a whistleblower. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10110342/Edward-Snowden-the-quiet-Hawaii-life-of-the-NSA-whistleblower.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...
- aagha 13y agoWhat are you saying? That because Snowden didn't have an extension to his own bloodline that it was easy for himself to come forward and blow the whistle?
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