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You know of Snowden because he is the only one who got access to this information and decided to expose it, ruining his own life in the process. How many other
by felipeerias 12y ago
You know of Snowden because he is the only one who got access to this information and decided to expose it, ruining his own life in the process.
How many other NSA workers, in the same situation, have made the (far more profitable) decision to keep their knowledge secret and use it for personal gain. A dozen? A hundred? A thousand?
- dragonwriter 12y agoWell, we know of at least some in government agencies involved doing so, because some of the information that has become public as a consequence of the Snowden leaks (not part of those leaks, necessarily, but information that was released afterwards) has revealed numerous instances of abuse of the surveillance system for personal purposes by people with direct access (not just using the information about the system for personal purpose, but using the surveillance systems themselves for personal purposes.)