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Edward Snowden Is Not Dead Despite Mysterious Tweets, Says Glenn Greenwald (inquisitr.com)
Saturday Slashdot reader MouseTheLuckyDog wrote:Some mysterious going ons on the web is causing people to ask if everything is alright with Edward Snowden. His last two tweets, since deleted, were a cryptic message...followed a few days later by a 64 character hex string. This combined with the recent move against torrents sites has the more conspiratorially oriented people speculating that perhaps he is dead and various agencies are slamming torrent sites to slow the spread of more Snowden leaks.
Saturday night The Inquisitr reported: The cryptic code tweets led many to believe that Snowden may have been captured or killed and the codes were the result of a "dead man's switch" designed to release if he did not check in to the computer at a certain time. However, a journalist with The Intercept that has worked with the whistleblower in the past says that Snowden is "fine," but would not elaborate further.
On Saturday Glenn Greenwald tweeted simply, "He's fine". While Snowden's first tweet was reported as "It's time," its complete text seems to suggest Snowden was gathering information for a book. "Did you work with me? Have we talked since 2013? Please recontact me securely, or talk to @bartongellman. It's time." That tweet ended with a URL that led to a tweet by Gellman. "If you have information on the work @Snowden did in the IC, help me tell it truthfully." And Saturday night Gellman also added a message on Twitter for "everyone requesting proof" that Snowden was alive. "Take a deep breath..."
Saturday night The Inquisitr reported: The cryptic code tweets led many to believe that Snowden may have been captured or killed and the codes were the result of a "dead man's switch" designed to release if he did not check in to the computer at a certain time. However, a journalist with The Intercept that has worked with the whistleblower in the past says that Snowden is "fine," but would not elaborate further.
On Saturday Glenn Greenwald tweeted simply, "He's fine". While Snowden's first tweet was reported as "It's time," its complete text seems to suggest Snowden was gathering information for a book. "Did you work with me? Have we talked since 2013? Please recontact me securely, or talk to @bartongellman. It's time." That tweet ended with a URL that led to a tweet by Gellman. "If you have information on the work @Snowden did in the IC, help me tell it truthfully." And Saturday night Gellman also added a message on Twitter for "everyone requesting proof" that Snowden was alive. "Take a deep breath..."
Yes, Eric Snowden, the unfortunately named character has been quite suicidal after being denied his trip to Barbados.
If I was dead, the first thing I'd do is get someone to tweet to say I was alive in order to cover up the fact! This is blatently a conspiracy!!!!
Huh? I guess it's better than (TM).
Maybe he's just participating in the games?
Hex string or it didn't happen!
Russia which is harbouring Snowden has made it illegal to use encryption unless you give them a copy of the keys used.
So, how exactly is Snowden supposed to be conversing with others without friendly old Vlad listening in?
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue
She and her goons will make it happen.
Elections, olympics, etc ... our precious traitor isn't getting enough of the news cycle to keep his 800 pound ego fed. Probably is a book in the works... we need to polonium his ASS before it's too late.
Even if Snowden had died, nothing of value would be lost. He's already shared all of his useful information about the mass surveillance by the NSA. He's moved on to being a nutjob, concerned about phones transmitting in airplane mode and the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. If Snowden had died, absolutely nothing of value would be lost.
He's just pining for the fjords.
#DeleteChrome
you'd be cryptic too!
hes just snowed in nothing to see here
Made ya look!
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Ignorant shitstains
This is just an attempt by Snowden and his pet journalists to keep his name and Greenwald's name trending. Same reason Greenwald only dribbles out pieces of information every few months instead of just releasing the information and letting everyone see ALL of the information instead of just those pieces that support his campaign of animosity against the US alive. The man is the worst possible steward of the information he conned Snowden into throwing his life away to obtain. It was Greenwald who arranged to have Snowden in Chinese controlled territory when the news was first released. Greenwald's manipulation of the data is just as bad as the governments manipulation. Of course the big difference is Greenwald is using the data to enhance his career while the government is trying to muddle through the intrincies of managing international diplomacy and security. Assange and Greenwald's tactics are identical except for Assange voluntarily put himself in a prison and Greenwald was smart enough to maintain some separation until he got back home safely.
This doesn't mean the government is right by any means. By all accounts they cause just as many problems as they fix but I would be interested to see what would happen if the government dismantled every counter terrorist and counter intelligence program to see what the world would really look like. Somehow I doubt it would magically usher in a period of peace and prosperity all over the world. In fact history would suggests just the opposite. The upheaval in the world today is not the result of the powerful doing too much it is because the powerful have not did enough. The US alone could put a halt to the violence in the ME the same way the put a halt to the violence in WW2. In WW2 that required killing everyone even capable of continued fighting. It meant taking heavy handed ownership of the entire country of Japan and Germany and only returning sovereignty after rebuilding the countries infrastructure and governments. Right now the US only uses enough power to prolong conflicts, Russia uses it's waning power to reduce the impact of any US efforts, and China does absolutely nothing except perpetuate the idea that they are some kind of super power based solely on the GDP figures they release while ignoring the more important per-capita metric. And one refurbished air craft carrier does make someone a naval power. China's bigger problem is that their economy was built upon cheap labor which by itself is unsustainable once their workers realize they should make more for their efforts. They also have to deal with other countries in South East Asia that can now compete with China when it comes to using cheap labor. Their response to this competition has resulted in the tensions over ownership of the entire South Eastern Sea.
Since he has such a refined conscience, I figured he blabbed about injustice in his new motherland. Putin and his minions know how to deal with such problems. Usually it involves the discharge of a Makarov variety to the posterior of the cranium.
BRB.
So snowden posted ffdae96f8dd292374a966ec8b57d9cc680ce1d23cb7072c522efe32a1a7e34b0 before it was removed.
Remember, back in the heat of the Snowden affair, it was rumored that he had established an insurance stash of files. And during that same time frame the existence of a hoard of Wikileaks insurance files was revealed. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c... These files files were in three traunches - 3.6GB, 49GB, and 349GB. Supposedly these were encrypted with AES256. The string posted by Snowden is 256 bits long. Has anyone tried opening the Wikileaks files with this string?
... just confirm it himself by holding up a paper from today and saying "I'm not dead"?
I think Snowden/Greenward/Gellman are working on a book, and these tweets were targeted at a source who was willing to confirm some of the information Snowden told Gellman for the book.
The first message was telling that person it was time for the person to start with the interview. The person was rightfully paranoid and wanted a way to arrange a secure communication channel with Snowden or Gellman.
So the second message was a public key saying "you'll know messages are legit because they'll be signed with this key" (so some other encrypted info about setting up a secure channel).
Both messages were public so that no one could tell who the intended recipient was.
When the person got the info and the secure communications got set up Snowden deleted the tweets.
I stole this Sig
If I didn't want some guy killed or some place attacked and I could not do anything to stop my country from doing it... that is a good indicator it's time to ponder whether it is really *my* country.
" It's time " was the last words spoken by Jack Bauer on "24" before he died. It was used as the start-up sound on the ibook.
wouldn't THEY!
Snowden is like the Founding Fathers of America.
For the people.
The Founding Fathers were a revolutionary group, diverse in their professions and yet unified in their goal: American liberty.
Reference:
http://www.ourtp.org/blogs/blog/our-turning-point/personal-responsibility/2012/03/17/what-did-the-founding-fathers-want-for-america
An average policeman's or security officer's salary in Russia is not that impressive. So an offer of a large sum of money plus a citizenship of a rich country could theoretically buy an information leading to his capture or worse.
Obviously Edward is not in safety at all. I would not be surprised if it ends up similar to Osama's case. It is just a matter of money and consequently resources to be invested. Money talks...
I think he realized russia is mad crook lol.. don't wanna get that polonium poisoning
I can understand the principle behind this, but don't see why the message(s) put out by it should be cryptic. If something bad happened to me, I'd want a clear "Help! I've been kidnapped!!" message, not some cryptic "My first is in Kiitten but not in cat..." type of thing
Just speculating, but: With Linux desktops, copy&paste can be confusing, as there are usually several buffers. What if he tweeted some important secret key by accident and is now in big trouble trying to save what can be saved?
Mistress Of Edward Snowden Pronounces Snowden Dead In Russia
http://getoffthebs.com/snowden-dead-in-russia/
what if he was merely telling a loved one to Be sure to drink your Ovaltine? may mean nothen at all to rest of us.