Meeting Snowden in Princeton

[Juan]

On Sun, 03 May 2015 23:00:02 -0700
Seth <list at sysfu.com> wrote:


> 
> I posted about this exact issue back in December, mostly to the sound
> of crickets.
> 
> To recap the timeline:
> 
> Sometime late 2012 - Snowden emails Runa Sandvik and provides his
> real name and address in order to obtain some Tor stickers. *** Link
> between his legal identity and the cincinnatus at lavabit.com email
> appears to have been established at this point to anyone monitoring
> his communications *** Discussion leads to the idea to host a
> Cryptoparty. [1]
> 
> December 1, 2012: Snowden emails Greenwald for the first time via  
> cincinnatus at lavabit.com address [1]
> 
> December 11, 2012: Snowden hosts the Cryptoparty in Hawaii while
> waiting for Greenwald to reply. Party is organized USING THE SAME  
> cincinnatus at lavabit.com address as a point of contact on the public  
> cryptoparty web site. [2]
> 
> Jan. 2013: Snowden reaches out to Laura Poitras, a documentary
> filmmaker. [3]

>  ... etc 

> This is not exactly what you would call keeping a low profile or
> 'good OPSEC' for a person actively planning to drop the biggest Intel
> leak in history.
> 
> I find this unbelievable.


	Are you saying the alleged facts you listed are not true?
	(that's a possibility)

	But if you assmue all that is true, then my view fits nicely.
	He didn't bothered with 'opsec' because he didn't need to. 


	


> 
> [1]  
> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140521/07124327303/snowden-ran-major-tor-exit-relay-hosted-cryptoparty-hawaii-while-waiting-greenwald-to-reply.shtml
> 
> [2]  
> https://web.archive.org/web/20130327000851/https://cryptoparty.org/wiki/Oahu
> 
> [3]  
> http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/edward-snowden-interview/edward-snowden-timeline-n114871
> 
> [4] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/statuses/344040301972815872