On Sun, 03 May 2015 23:00:02 -0700 Seth <list@sysfu.com> wrote:
I posted about this exact issue back in December, mostly to the sound of crickets.
To recap the timeline:
Sometime late 2012 - Snowden emails Runa Sandvik and provides his real name and address in order to obtain some Tor stickers. *** Link between his legal identity and the cincinnatus@lavabit.com email appears to have been established at this point to anyone monitoring his communications *** Discussion leads to the idea to host a Cryptoparty. [1]
December 1, 2012: Snowden emails Greenwald for the first time via cincinnatus@lavabit.com address [1]
December 11, 2012: Snowden hosts the Cryptoparty in Hawaii while waiting for Greenwald to reply. Party is organized USING THE SAME cincinnatus@lavabit.com address as a point of contact on the public cryptoparty web site. [2]
Jan. 2013: Snowden reaches out to Laura Poitras, a documentary filmmaker. [3]
... etc
This is not exactly what you would call keeping a low profile or 'good OPSEC' for a person actively planning to drop the biggest Intel leak in history.
I find this unbelievable.
Are you saying the alleged facts you listed are not true? (that's a possibility) But if you assmue all that is true, then my view fits nicely. He didn't bothered with 'opsec' because he didn't need to.
[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140521/07124327303/snowden-ran-major-tor...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20130327000851/https://cryptoparty.org/wiki/Oahu
[3] http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/edward-snowden-interview/edward-snowden-timel...
[4] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/statuses/344040301972815872