Russia and China crack Snowden Cache

[Tim Beelen]

Tom Harper, the Sunday Times' journalist who wrote the article. The man 
who repeatedly lied about the the state of affairs regarding Ed landed 
himself an interview with CNN. It was aired a few hours ago. The man dug 
himself a hole, jumped into his hole and buried himself with an 
explanation of how he reports what.

Effectively he told CNN that it is speculation, that he reports what he 
feels to be the truth as provided by his sources within the government 
but that what he reported is not explicitly mentioned as such, and that 
it is up to his sources "the government" (whatever that means) to 
provide proof.

In other words, he lied. Many bad things did not happen. And I'm sure 
that the OPSEC that Glenn et al. have been maintaining is for the sake 
of all parties involved. And I bet that three-letter agencies have 
reached out to him to let him know that he's walking a fine line and I'm 
sure that Glenn also knows that they have a vested interest in the 
information not becoming freely available.

And that's the end of that story.

We're also not discussing the semantics of how Glenn handles his files 
in the face of what is an obvious push to erode civil liberties. Because.

On 6/15/2015 7:13 PM, zaki at manian.org wrote:
> 1. Crypto is broken in the sense that entire notion of trusted 
> computing is massively broken and nation states can compromise end 
> devices at scale and access plain text via device compromise.
>
> 2. There was a period of time when the Snowden cache was controlled 
> primarily by journalists with limited organizational support. Many bad 
> things could have happened. It is still mysterious if they did.
>
> 3.It also seems likely that competing services had access to many of 
> the same documents as Snowden did. It seems reasonable to assume there 
> were more people exfiltrating docs for private benefit than for public 
> benefit on the top secret network.
>
> 4. What standard should organizations who handle secret information be 
> held to? The Intercept has hired some of top practitioners in the 
> field. Is that good enough? Less well funded institutions?
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:10 AM, <dan at geer.org <mailto:dan at geer.org>> 
> wrote:
>
>      | Glenn Greenwald at The//Intercept on The Sunday Times birdcage
>     liner
>      | 'reporting' that brought the story to press.
>      |
>      |
>     https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/14/sunday-times-report-snowden=
>      | -files-journalism-worst-also-filled-falsehoods/
>
>
>     If Snowden had zero copies and Greenwald/Poitras had the originals,
>     then any Russo-Chinese fiddling with those originals was the result
>     of having stolen them from Greenwald/Poitras, not Snowden.
>
>     As the world turns,
>
>     --dan
>
>

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