treetoppin

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by treetoppin 11y ago
Determining an acceptable level of collateral damage is a very, very tricky problem. In the Snowden case I think the damage that was done is acceptable in order to root out illegal activity, but that doesn't mean that collateral damage
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by treetoppin 11y ago
I wasn't talking about whether other leaks have been more damaging, I was talking specifically about the lack of nuance contained in the Edward Snowden hero/villain dichotomy. We can talk about the White House's absolutely sh
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by treetoppin 11y ago
Who gave the documents to the NYT? Obviously this is a failure on the part of the NYT, but given that Snowden talks about how security conscious he is then he should bear at least some of the responsibility for not controlling the release.
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by treetoppin 11y ago
I see the point you are trying to make, but the analogy misses some nuance. A question that captures more of the muddiness of this is "If I find out someone is committing a crime and I prove it by indiscriminately publishing their emai
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by treetoppin 11y ago
I can see how it would be easy to read my post as a judgement as to whether the Snowden leaks were worth it, but I wasn't trying to make that point. If I was to rephrase my original comment using your analogy, I would say it something
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by treetoppin 11y ago
Absolutely. Ill clarify here and state that I think what the US government was doing was wrong, and that by uncovering the illegal (in my mind, though there is some debate about this point) activities of our spy agencies the world is better
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by treetoppin 11y ago
I tend to dislike the hero/villain dichotomy that is usually held up. I think the Snowden leaks have caused tremendous damage to the US geopolitically, and I think the manner in which he is releasing the documents has elements of narci
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by treetoppin 11y ago
I've often wondered what happens psychologically to people who inject "noise" into their virtual personas to evade being identified. Does the fake persona start to leak back into their everyday personality? If you do this lon
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by treetoppin 11y ago
I worked for about a year and a half on the ASRG project, specifically doing reliability work for the Stirling engines. They had a bit of a ways to go to prove out the system (its a tricky problem trying to "prove" that your devic
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by treetoppin 12y ago
If you listen to Neil deGrasse Tyson's interview on Star Talk with Elon Musk you will hear Musk talk about how he ran an experiment to see if he could live on $1 a day, and once he realized that he could do that he decided to take risk