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Here's a question: Do we think Snowden is intentionally misleading us to attack RSA and EMC, or that he's actually releasing as little information as he can to
by mrobot 13y ago
Here's a question: Do we think Snowden is intentionally misleading us to attack RSA and EMC, or that he's actually releasing as little information as he can to get us on the right track toward fixing things? Why would this particular piece of information be selected if it was not a real problem?
- mikevm 13y agoI'm tired of having to correct people on this, but here goes: Snowden is not leaking anything anymore. He leaked most of the documents he had to some selected journalists a long time ago and it is now up to them to analyze them and responsibly report whatever interesting information there is to be learned from them.
- mrobot 13y agoThank you for clarifying, Mike. Deciding what is responsible is likely a coordinated effort. I think the same argument applies. Do we think someone might be being irresponsible here? Sensationalism, or real problem?
- willows 13y agoYeah, I'm not too knowledgeable about the whole situtation, but I wish Snowden had leaked the documents to the public. It sucks having to trust the press. Assumedly if Snowden didn't like how they were handling it he'd step in in some way, though.
- salient 13y agoIf he did, they'd just yell that he put everyone in life-threatening danger, like they did with Manning and also Wikileaks. I guess he wanted to avoid that level of accusations, although people like Mike Rogers still say that about him anyway: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131223/02311625673/rep-mike-rogers-goes-national-tv-to-lie-about-nsa-programs-snowden.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131223/02311625673/rep-mi...
- wiml 13y agoA post by Greenwald on the subject of "dump it all" vs. "vet and dribble": http://utdocuments.blogspot.com.br/2013/12/questionsresponses-for-journalists.html http://utdocuments.blogspot.com.br/2013/12/questionsresponse...
- belorn 13y agoBy journalists. This also include anyone they might hire/recruit to help them in identifying what is valuable. For example, Bruce Schneier helped to make the news articles around the tor network by going through the NSA documents.
- Grue3 13y agoSnowden says whatever keeps Putin happy, so that he doesn't sell his ass back to Americans.