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Info Leak Wars To Get Messier

Posted by Soulskill on from the somebody-schedule-e-woodstock dept.

jfruh writes "As we discussed this weekend, David Miranda, the partner of the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald, was detained while transporting encrypted data on the Snowden affair from Berlin; all his electronics were seized. Over at the Guardian offices, British police destroyed more of the newspaper's hard drives. Privacy blogger Dan Tynan sees where this one is going: reporters like Greenwald are going to stop even bothering to be circumspect with their revelations. Sorting through the contents of such infocaches to redact sensitive information just gives the government time to track you down. Eventually, the information will just be dumped online, warts and all, as soon as someone who wants the information public gets ahold of it."

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  1. Re:If you have nothing to hide... by Ziest · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, the government says they have nothing to hide BUT their actions scream "We have metric shit loads of things to hide". Things are going to get "interesting" in the next few years. It would be best if people started being more paranoid and start learning how to drop off the grid. We here in the west spent 40 years in a cold war with the Soviet Union. Some of the lessons that were learned on how to conduct activities while dealing with those guys, eg. Moscow Rules, would be instructive to those peoples and groups the government is and will be going after. Google the phrase, "Green in the new Red"

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  2. Funny you should mention Groklaw by Kelson · · Score: 5, Informative

    Considering this news...

  3. Re:Idiots by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 5, Informative

    But they have taken legal action.

    Letter from Miranda's attorneys

    Even if you don't agree with Miranda's position, the letter is still worth reading, as it lays out the facts in meticulous detail.