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Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours ago

You know who I haven't heard of in a while? Edward Snowden. I hope he does well.

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You know who I haven't heard of in a while? Edward Snowden. I hope he does well.

Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours ago
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    It’s good you wrote here then, because you are wrong. Snowden wasn’t being specific in what he grabbed, but he closely worked with Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian to publicize what he grabbed. There is a whole Wikipedia article of the release, which makes only one mention of irresponsible disclosure putting an agent at risk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden_disclosures . Also Snowden himself was demanding agents not be exposed.

    Now, who most likely got a lot of agents killed is the leaker in chief, Trump himself.

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      They made a movie about him too. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4044364

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      He was specific in what he released. He released a list of compromised Chinese systems in order to try to gain asylum in Hong Kong, which is the first place he went to. Only China kicked him out of the country, so he had to change plans. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1259508/edward-snowden-us-government-has-been-hacking-hong-kong-and-china

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        How do you read into that article that he handed a list of compromised systems to chinese authorities?

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          Oops. Wrong article. https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/article/1266892/exclusive-nsa-targeted-chinas-tsinghua-university-extensive-hacking

          https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1266875/exclusive-us-hacked-pacnet-asia-pacific-fibre-optic-network-operator

          https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1266821/us-hacks-chinese-mobile-phone-companies-steals-sms-data-edward-snowden

          https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1266777/exclusive-snowden-safe-hong-kong-more-us-cyberspying-details-revealed

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      Thanks, I will check these links out. Based on the comments I was getting I figured I must be way off base on this one.

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