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Schneier: China and Russia Almost Definitely Have the Snowden Docs

Posted by timothy on from the branching-paths dept.

cold fjord writes: Writing at Wired, Bruce Schneier states that he believes that China and Russia actually do have the Snowden documents, but that the path by which they got them may be different than what has been reported: "... The vulnerability is not Snowden; it's everyone who has access to the files. I've handled some of the Snowden documents myself, and even though I'm a paranoid cryptographer, I know how difficult it is to maintain perfect security. It's been open season on the computers of the journalists Snowden shared documents with since this story broke in July 2013. And while they have been taking extraordinary pains to secure those computers, it's almost certainly not enough to keep out the world's intelligence services. .... Which brings me to the second potential source of these documents to foreign intelligence agencies: the US and UK governments themselves. I believe that both China and Russia had access to all the files that Snowden took well before Snowden took them because they've penetrated the NSA networks where those files reside."

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  1. Re:facepalm by guestapoo · · Score: 5, Informative
    It was taken out of context, by the *TITLE* of Wire article, what Schneier said:

    I believe that both China and Russia had access to all the files that Snowden took well before Snowden took them because they’ve penetrated the NSA networks where those files reside. After all, the NSA has been a prime target for decades.
    This is why I find allegations that Snowden was working for the Russians or the Chinese simply laughable. What makes you think those countries waited for Snowden? And why do you think someone working for the Russians or the Chinese would go public with their haul?

    Like, which Snowden and journalists working with him, said trillion times, he kept nothing, everything were handled to journalists, before he went to Russia, but the MSM "accidentally" forget this.
    Every time, when something from his documents is debunked, exposed by *journalists*, each time, I see the "innocent" title like "Snowden releases X", "Snowden claims Y", etc...
    And, each time, comments like "when Putin get all infos from this traitor, he is doom" get soil to grow!