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Given the apparent security practices where Snowden worked, I expect the Chinese/Russian intelligence services already had the entirety of what Snowden took. "
by dllthomas 11y ago
Given the apparent security practices where Snowden worked, I expect the Chinese/Russian intelligence services already had the entirety of what Snowden took.
"A few Western journalists in their flats and offices does not a secure facility for storing highly classified information make."
They might have done better if the NSA had not been deliberately undermining our ability to secure ourselves.
- caskance 11y agoWhether they had the information or not, giving them a plausible excuse to know that information is still a security breach. There are countless examples in the past where one party had secret information they were forced not to act on for fear of revealing to enemies that they did in fact know it.
- dllthomas 11y agoIt is a breach, but only a severe one if there were things (of import) for which another plausible excuse could not have been trivially constructed. And again, this is an issue because individuals cannot credibly be secure, which is quite specifically something the NSA has worked to ensure.