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The Intercept Releases First Batch Of New Docs Leaked By Snowden (theintercept.com)
executioner quotes a report from The Intercept: The Intercept's first SIDtoday release comprises 166 articles, including all articles published between March 31, 2003, when SIDtoday began, and June 30, 2003, plus installments of all article series begun during this period through the end of the year. Major topics include the National Security Agency's role in interrogations, the Iraq War, the war on terror, new leadership in the Signals Intelligence Directorate, and new, popular uses of the internet and of mobile computing devices. You can download this batch directly here, or download the documents via Github.
Oh, and did I mention the likelyhood that /. has been purchased by a political action committee?
Seems more likely every day
05/15/2003
CIA> We'll stop the waterboarding if you tell use where the WMD are located.
Captured Iraqi> But haven't had them in decades!
CIA> To POTUS: There are no WMD in Iraq.
Bush> To Congress: We stopped Saddam Hussein just in time from using WMD against our country.
"I hate Edward Snowden because he's popular!"
How about instead of this batch release nonsense we dump all of the data and get the public outrage all of the way at once, instead of spoonfeeding it to the masses at the controlling entities' behest?
The public's collective memory is short.
The thinking is that when you keep it in the news, no one will forget.
Of course, that can backfire when everyone becomes numb to the stories.
Slow leaks day?
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
of what was released, it proves Snowden did nothing wrong, but that won't stop the Republicans for calling for his death.
captcha: snowshoe. So close.
Ahh, yeah, so it's okay to use public outrage as a tool when it serves causes you believe in. Got it.
CIA (and many other agencies) spends a ton of money on AWS (Amazon Web Services). Jeff Bezos is an owner of Amazon. Same Jeff Bezos funds the website intercept, which becomes a non-productive avenue to publich Snowden's revelations.
Many of the Snowden's revelations were already known, and his leak did a great public service.
That being said, Snowden's files were expected to be a never ending source of new exciting revelations. Did not happen. Greenwald was bought off, but he didn't know it at that time.
For all the IT/Infosec experts among us this should provide great insight into the evolution of this warrantless surveillance state we find ourselves subjected to.
yes... because national security is a popularity contest
You're not talking about national security.
How about instead of this batch release nonsense we dump all of the data and get the public outrage all of the way at once, instead of spoonfeeding it to the masses at the controlling entities' behest?
The public's collective memory is short.
The thinking is that when you keep it in the news, no one will forget.
Of course, that can backfire when everyone becomes numb to the stories.
It will backfire the second you admit to someone interested in the facts of the matter that you are withholding them for dramatic effect.
Your agenda is then obviously dramatic effect, not transparency.
The most interesting thing to me about the whole Snowden thing, is that nobody really cares. The stuff that he leaked are things that most people thought were happening already. In general, the leaks got a kind of "meh" response from the world. What that says about the world is something to talk about, but I find it interesting that there's not really anything that interesting to the public. It's not like they found proof of alien autopsies or something. Just your normal "we're a spy agency run by the United States" type of stuff.
Just because I can hook a shark from a boat, I do no offer to wrestle it in the water.
Anna Nicole Smith still dead?
N-n-n-n-nailed it.
Then again, as the voting here shows you, if you do anything besides put Ed Snowden and anyone associated with his leaking of data on a pedestal, you've already lost. People don't give a flying fuck about content: they care about the presentation.
So now, instead of knowing what they were doing against the world (including America), we are going to read their marketing team's newsletter. With all the travel abroad and be important for your country stuff. Disgusting.
If you don't care, it suggests that you have no interest in computer security, which in turn suggests that this is probably the wrong forum for you.
Snowden's revelations have had an absolutely massive worldwide effect on everyone in the industry, from the lowliest techie with an interest in their personal privacy and machine security, all the way up to the largest megacorps like Google and Apple. What's more, it has dramatically altered the encryption landscape in everyday computing, focused many developer minds on cryptography, and made TLS universal.
To hear someone say "Nobody cares" is really kinda funny. While funny, the remark has no factual basis.
nasty, nasty there mr foulmouth
It is not the nature of security agencies to make their dead agents public
That being said, either the information was valuable and people are dead, or worthless and nobody got hurt
take a choice, but you cannot choose "valuable, but nobody got hurt" because this is not some bowdlerized fairy tale
The self-serving corporate overlords in the media are unwilling to admit that anyone's been hurt. Of course, you can read all about countermeasures in terrorist training manuals, so take your own conclusions. You've been sold to the highest bidders, by the media, you stupid fuck.
Yes, you can, idiot boy.
It is valuable to know that the NSA was tracking every phone number dialed in America. Who called who.
And yet, nobody was killed because we found out the NSA was doing this.
Hell, the NSA thinks MAYBE all these phone numbers assisted with 2 terrorist related events. At least, that's what they told Congress, under oath.
Of course, the FBI is going "whee!"
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
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The tone and substance of many of these "newsletters" is disturbingly inane, much like the ridiculous motivational posters some HR person decided to put up, as our old company was falling apart around her. Seriously, Beaver Tails? April Fools? Kristmas Krypto Klub? Perhaps they are top secret to avoid public ridicule, although I hope that last one is just a measure of SID's blinkered gung-ho cluelessness, and not what it appears to be.
At least we have the Geospatial Exploitation Office! We were running seriously low on exploitation, right?
Hell, the NSA thinks MAYBE all these phone numbers assisted with 2 terrorist related events. At least, that's what they told Congress, under oath.
In an unclassified environment.
Most of this stuff is classified, you can go to federal prison for talking about it in unclassified environments. Take from that what you will.
I would say that the crap in Ukraine can directly be attributed to the leaks, as Russia learned how to work around the intelligence agencies so that their movement to annex parts of the Ukraine was not detected until it was too late.
I would also expect that the Paris attacks could have been stopped with the access they allegedly had.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Yeah, that's the trick. You just make your failure "classified".
And there is no chance anything Snowden released surpised Russia. They have well funded, very experienced foreign and domestic spying agencies.
I would expect that only the dumbest, most naive "terrorist" would get caught using the stuff Snowden released. What catches terrorists is hard work, boots on the grounds. Trying to do it sitting behind a desk gets people killed.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
Russian guard service reverts to typewriters after NSA leaks
Yeah, nothing at all surprised Russia about the leaks, they changed to typewriters and couriers because of their normal paranoia.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
The "they" you refer to being, of course, the NSA, CIA and other agencies who keep on doing illegal things in secret and then writing reports about it so that people can leak them and expose them to the unwanted glare of public scrutiny?
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