[cryptome] Re: Thank You, Edward Snowden

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sat Oct 19 02:18:56 PDT 2013


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:22 PM, John Young <jya at pipeline.com> wrote:
>
>> perhaps the proceedings were better; Schneier was there after all,..
>
> Schneier is a leader of the monetizing pack, never
> crosses the line, sits among the stellars of institutional
> control, incessantly promotes his wares, spoon-feds
> fans. Predictably for self-promoters, like other stellars,
> he is security chief for a principal telecom spy. Impolitely,
> a security flack, which may be redundant.
>
> Self-reportedly he is helping skim, cherry-pick, sanitize,
> ass-cover abetters of NSA, shoveling insider tips to outlets.
> Warns must not go too far in response, merely securitize!
> the net. Which is the scam comseckers have been running
> in cahoots with the officials since the birth of government
> networks.
>
>
>> ... is there anyone you approve of John?
>
> Snowden and Manning, the brands and fans, let others off the
> hook, when more like them are needed to avoid sacralization of
> the crucified.
>
> Just hope there are a lot more doing truly good behind and
> below the media and crazed followers tampering down of
> dissent with adoration, gratitude, attitude and hyperbolization.
>
> Leaks should be done without fanfare, which contradicts the
> very term.

Indeed. There are some big names there, but of question is the amount
of actual pressure they are applying. So, big x fractional = ???. And of
that, what fraction is adopted by the receiver. Nor do the really strong
questions seem to be being asked yet. Too many people ducking and
weaseling on interviews, too many going easy on the questions. Sure,
there are course adjustments being made. But will the future outcome
be significantly different...
We need a good prediction market. At least some of us onlookers
could make a bit of change while in the peanut gallery.



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