Russia and China crack Snowden Cache

[Zenaan Harkness]

On 6/14/15, Shelley <shelley at misanthropia.org> 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?

ISTR some solid "yep, we parallel construct" facts at some point...

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

Well, may be not.

<can't resist>Lie back, relax. Now imagine you're 5 years old.</>

Actually, so you have 20 operatives in say North Korea and you need to
contact them urgently so they know their holiday picture taking is
over and must return post haste, since their holiday cover is about to
be blown - how do you contact them without personally contacting them,
to maximise their safety?

Is a daily Tor sign in the best idea for operatives in other
countries? Of course for those who do their daily Tor duty, they
presumably will be notified.

So perhaps just reading the daily newspaper from the country from
which you're officially on holiday from? "Oh, there's some
international spy scandal going on, think we better leave now dear,
since we foreigners might be targetted regardless - how about an
opportunistic trip South?"