Snowden Joins Twitter, Follows NSA

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @07:10AM from the if-that-is-your-real-name dept.

wiredmikey writes: Edward Snowden joined Twitter Tuesday, picking up more than a quarter of a million followers on the social network in just over two hours. Snowden followed a single Twitter account: the U.S. National Security Agency, from which he stole electronic documents revealing the agency's secret surveillance programs. "Can you hear me now?" he asked in his first tweet, which was quickly resent by Twitter users tens of thousands of times. In his second, Snowden noted the recent news about the planet Mars and then quipped about the difficulty he had finding asylum after the U.S. government fingered him as the source of the NSA leaks. "And now we have water on Mars!" he wrote. "Do you think they check passports at the border? Asking for a friend."

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At least he still has a sense of humor by NotDrWho · 2015-09-29 07:22 · Score: 4, Interesting

I would probably be sad if I knew that I would never again be able to return home or travel because I had exposed the illegal practices of my government.

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Re:I dont get it by Spy+Handler · 2015-09-29 07:48 · Score: 4, Interesting

He was just a low/mid-level analyst who leaked a bunch of shit. Why are people treating him like any sort of authority on anything?
That's actually what I thought too initially, without knowing much about the situation.
But as I kept reading, I learned that he was by far the smartest programmer at NSA (at least in the branch that he was at), he was THE man according to his former NSA colleagues. He took off with everything, he got the keys to the whole kingdom using his knowledge and mad skillz. No other low/mid-level analyst (as you put it) could've pulled that off.