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I find myself gradually coming around to the Snowden side, but it is entirely despite his fans on HN, not because of them. The concept of a self-releasing trov
by danielweber 13y ago
I find myself gradually coming around to the Snowden side, but it is entirely despite his fans on HN, not because of them.
The concept of a self-releasing trove-in-case-I-die is fascinating to the HN crowd from a technical perspective, but it puts Snowden in a really bad light. Without it he can make a convincing argument that he only took what was necessary to expose bad behavior.
- talmand 13y agoI see it as the complete opposite. He took who knows how many documents. So far only a select few have been released that support his allegations. I have no doubt there is information in his stack that could cause very bad things to happen to various people and/or organizations. Chances are those documents will never be released, if he has any level of conscience. Therefore, if the people who might do him harm understand that such documentation will not be released as long as he is not harmed, then it's a defense mechanism that fits exactly in line with what he claims he is doing all this for in the first place. If he had done a massive document dump onto the Internet then I would have immediately questioned his motives.