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Snowden Questions WikiLeaks' Methods of Releasing Leaks (pcworld.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the how-to-disclose-secrets dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from PCWorld: Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor, Edward Snowden, has censured WikiLeaks' release of information without proper curation. On Thursday, Snowden, who has embarrassed the U.S. government with revelations of widespread NSA surveillance, said that WikiLeaks was mistaken in not at least modestly curating the information it releases. "Democratizing information has never been more vital, and @Wikileaks has helped. But their hostility to even modest curation is a mistake," Snowden said in a tweet. WikiLeaks shot back at Snowden that "opportunism won't earn you a pardon from Clinton [and] curation is not censorship of ruling party cash flows." The whistleblowing site appeared to defend itself earlier on Thursday while referring to its "accuracy policy." In a Twitter message it said that it does "not tamper with the evidentiary value of important historical archives." WikiLeaks released nearly 20,000 previously unseen DNC emails last week, which suggest that committee officials had favored Clinton over her rival Senator Bernie Sanders. The most recent leak consists of 29 voicemails from DNC officials.

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  1. Re:I think it's pretty obvious by Alomex · · Score: 5, Informative

    1,300 lawsuits against his companies are on the public record. Compare this to Mitt Romney or Michael Bloomberg to see what a shady character Trump is.

  2. Re:I think it's pretty obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Need to control for industry and the number of companies run by each.

    Can you tell us how many lawsuits the other companies have faced? How many of them were bogus or otherwise won?

  3. Re:I think it's pretty obvious by quenda · · Score: 4, Informative

    Snowden is snubbing someone for not properly curating a leak, given that he released classified documents that were far more sensitive without usefully curating them.

    Snowden released documents to trusted journalists, he did not dump anything on the internet.

  4. Re:I think it's pretty obvious by Alomex · · Score: 5, Informative

    From USAToday:

    However, even by those measures, the number of cases in which Trump is involved is extraordinary. For comparison, USA TODAY analyzed the legal involvement for five top real-estate business executives: Edward DeBartolo, shopping-center developer and former San Francisco 49ers owner; Donald Bren, Irvine Company chairman and owner; Stephen Ross, Time Warner Center developer; Sam Zell, Chicago real-estate magnate; and Larry Silverstein, a New York developer famous for his involvement in the World Trade Center properties.

    To maintain an apples-to-apples comparison, only actions that used the developers' names were included. The analysis found Trump has been involved in more legal skirmishes than all five of the others---combined.

  5. Re: I think it's pretty obvious by GNious · · Score: 3, Informative

    See: https://twitter.com/NatSecGeek...