The Intercept Releases ~1,264 pages of NSA Docs

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Snowden can't really sign the files if he has absolutely no access to them,
which is a critical part of the current story, otherwise we'd be right to
worry about his proximity to the FSB.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 8:00 PM, John Young <jya at pipeline.com> wrote:

> The Intercept doesn't sign Snowden files, just posts them on DocumentCloud.
> Best would be for Snowden to sign them if to be signed, journalists do not
> have capability to do it, and most could care less except to blow smoke
> about certification. Their lawyers advise to not certify anything leaked to
> them, too risky.
>
> Same procedure by all the journalist-publisher users of DocumentCloud; it
> is restricted to journalists-publishers, whom it is well known are quite
> slack
> about comsec, infosec and their customers's privacy in order maximize
> profitability of user data for advertizers.
>
> DocumentCloud, now hosting over 700,000 documents of millilons of
> pages, is rather easily penetrated and tampered with, but that's to be
> expected of anything hosted on the cloud which has the world's worst
> security. Worser: logs of accesses are kept and shared to authorities.
>
> Cloud may be the most grievously harmer of privacy today, soon to be
> surpassed by the IoT to exploit user's gullibility with promises of oh so
> popular faulty security measures and irresponsibly shady privacy policies.
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> At 07:05 PM 7/1/2015, stef wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 08:51:39AM +1000, Alfie John wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jul 2, 2015, at 07:47 AM, John Young wrote:
>> > > Mostly Xkeyscore and more.
>> > >
>> > > http://cryptome.org/2015/07/nsa-xks-more-intercept-15-0701.7z (643MB)
>> >
>> > Is there an md5sum of that link served via HTTPS?
>>
>> i'd rather prefer the intercept itself actually releasing this as a signed
>> archive.
>>
>> --
>> otr fp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt
>>
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