Edward Snowden Leaks Could Help Paedophiles Escape Police, Says UK Government

An anonymous reader writes "Paedophiles may escape detection because highly-classified material about Britain's surveillance capabilities have been published by the Guardian newspaper, the UK government has claimed. A senior Whitehall official said data stolen by Edward Snowden, a former contractor to the US National Security Agency, could be exploited by child abusers and other cyber criminals. It could also put lives at risk by disclosing secrets to terrorists, insurgents and hostile foreign governments, he said."

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The naivety on here is staggering

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"We've heard from David Cameron that Snowden's leak "damaged national security.""

So you think leaking confidential documents *doesn't* damage security in some way? Have you just landed from Planet Naive?

"Government enforcers employed heavy-handed tactics to intercept, detain and threaten those even tangentially connected to the leaks."

Oh dear - they arrested some queenie journalist and his bum chum who had a load of confidential documents on his laptop. How dare they! These people are genuine pseudo intellectual liberal hacks , they must be allowed to act with impunity and make national security decisions for all of us as they're obviously far better position to make these decisions than people who work in this sphere!

Not.

You fucking halfwit. Bleaters like you will be the first to shout and stamp your little feet when another bomb goes off on the tube due to intelligence opportunities lost. You don't deserve protection from the state.

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But , honestly, couldn't the whole thing be solved with instituting a hunting season w/ no limits? They still have hunting weapons over there don't they?
A list of registered offenders and a box of 12 ga. shells. All that's left is to call for an appt. with the taxidermist.
Personally I'd love a hunting season. I already print off the I.D. pages from the local registry and tack them to lampposts near the offenders home, in case the neighbors didn't know about the registry. What FUN! If they get torn down, I just put them back up again , wheeeeeeeeeeeee! Sneakernet LIVES! Webpages on poles.