Russia and China crack Snowden Cache

Mirimir mirimir at riseup.net
Sun Jun 14 17:10:40 PDT 2015


On 06/14/2015 01:30 AM, Shelley wrote:
> On June 14, 2015 12:15:55 AM grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> http://politics.slashdot.org/story/15/06/14/0441220/report-russia-and-china-crack-encrypted-snowden-files
>>
>>
>> Russia and China have cracked the top-secret cache of files stolen by
>> the fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden, forcing MI6 to pull
>> agents out of live operations in hostile countries, according to
>> senior officials in Downing Street, the Home Office and the security
>> services.
> 
> Or perhaps one of the many data breaches of the incompetent fed.gov
> contained info, legally held or otherwise, on other five eyes operatives
> and this is an opportunistic parallel construction to try to implicate
> and nab Snowden?

Now they can blame anything on Snowden. They'll probably even try to
blame earlier Chinese hacks on him. It's just bullshit.

Anyway, names of operatives shouldn't be in NSA data. Or at least, not
in data available to some random admin. That would be incompetent.

> Seems like they'd want to keep something like this quiet if their
> operatives really were in danger.  Jmo.

Yes. But maybe they did.

> -S
> 
> 
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