I'm conflicted by Levison. On one hand, I support what he's doing. I also think that he's raising awareness of a serious issue. On the other hand, I have exact

I'm conflicted by Levison. On one hand, I support what he's doing. I also think that he's raising awareness of a serious issue. On the other hand, I have exactly the same issues as you. I don't think that his case holds up to serious scrutiny, and I don't think he's presenting himself in good faith. It's been frustrating to me to try and figure out what exactly is going on at the big name tech companies. Levison's story is used to justify the assumption that essentially all tech companies are compromised, legally. Personally, I've seen an overreporting of very tenuous links such as Google being linked to In-Q-Tel, and an underreporting of things like the NSA division at Dell. Maybe this is just a PR move on Levison's part? Trying to emulate Kim Dotcom as an "Outlaw Privacy Rights Hero"? I don't know. I'm onboard with decentralizing everything, I try not to pass judgement on individual companies. Yours' is the first and only comment I've read so far, though, so I'm curious to see the rest of HN's thoughts.