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Should Edward Snowden Trust Apple To Do the Right Thing?
Nicola Hahn writes: As American lawmakers run a victory lap after passing the USA Freedom Act of 2015, Edward Snowden has published an op-ed piece which congratulates Washington on its "historic" reform. He also identifies Apple Inc. as a champion of user privacy. Snowden states: "Basic technical safeguards such as encryption — once considered esoteric and unnecessary — are now enabled by default in the products of pioneering companies like Apple, ensuring that even if your phone is stolen, your private life remains private."
This sort of talking point encourages the perception that Apple has sided with users in the battle against mass surveillance. But there are those who question Snowden's public endorsement of high-tech monoliths. Given their behavior in the past is it wise to assume that corporate interests have turned over a new leaf and won't secretly collaborate with government spies?
He's been a security focused sysadmin for years. Look him up on Wikipedia
Kidnapping, torture and war... for starters.. The spying? Eh...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Why is it that when the government does something that he doesn't like, it's "big government run amok" but when it's something that I don't like, I'm "an America hater"?
What would the Founding Fathers, which most conservatives uphold to be the absolute pinnacle of what our government should strive to be, say about the NSA's data collection on it's own citizens? I personally think they made it perfectly clear in the 4th Amendment, but that's just me.
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A source "with detailed knowledge on the matter" told Reuters that hiring screeners for Booz Allen had found some details of Snowden's education that "did not check out precisely," but decided to hire him anyway
Resume falsified, yup sounds like a typical "expert" to me.
You have bought into the administration smear campaign and government propaganda. Booz Allen isn't necessarily lying, here, but this statement, along with the ridiculously picayune reasons for rejecting candidates based on some detail not being perfect, it's likely something as innocuous as listing the wrong day of the month for a graduation, or misspelling of an instructor's name.
You might educate yourself by checking out the form Snowden was required to complete. I challenge anyone to be able to fill it out completely and include nothing that does not "check out precisely".
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