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Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1

https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-part-1/
32•libroot•43m ago

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dadrian•31m ago
Surely, this time we'll find something!
hulitu•29m ago
> Surely, this time we'll find something!

You won"t.

CamperBob2•18m ago
We saw plenty, but nobody cared. Let's see how that works out for us in the long run.
hulitu•3m ago
People forget. Easily. Just bombard their brains with something else and everything is fine.
bagels•2m ago
There were plenty of somethings found at the time.
asdefghyk•16m ago
Some what (vaguely) related to this topic About surveillance.

I recall a local political and business figure making statements you and/or I are being surveilled by the government. Everyone thought that's not likely , its not possible, he is a bit imbalanced..

After the dumping of documents' from Snowden and Assange it was shown to be possible Things like, if its even possible , it could plausibly be happening. The government has somewhat infinite resources.

The altered software for hard drive hacking for example. Wow. Intercepting packages in mail and altering the software ...

wood_spirit•8m ago
The Soviets planted listening devices in American embassy typewriters between October 1976 and January 1984 - by intercepting them in the mail!

Really sophisticated devices: https://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/

walletdrainer•15m ago
It’d be nice if someone released the 99% of Snowden documents that remain unreleased
jjordan•13m ago
If you've ever watched the movie "Enemy of the State", which came out in 1998, I don't know how you can come away from that movie thinking anything other than someone in that script writing pipeline had some insider knowledge of what was happening. So many of the things they talk about in the film were confirmed by the Snowden releases that it's kinda scary.

Today, it's almost a national societal resignation that "you have no privacy, get over it." I wish that weren't the case, but I'd like to see more representation embrace privacy as the basic right it should be again.

wood_spirit•11m ago
How can Snowdon possibly feel as the international situation changes so totally since he fled? It boggles the mind.
ok123456•9m ago
Probably, that he did the right thing at the right time.

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