{"id":185796,"date":"2014-08-13T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/13\/edward-snowden-still-has-a-lot-to-say\/"},"modified":"2014-08-13T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T23:53:00","slug":"edward-snowden-still-has-a-lot-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/13\/edward-snowden-still-has-a-lot-to-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden Still has a Lot to Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/zkha0wz.png\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/zkha0wz.png\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>He gave <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/08\/edward-snowden\/\">a rather expansive interviewed with <i>Wired<\/i><\/a>.  Here are the most recent revelations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He left &#8220;bread crumbs&#8221; which should have let shown the NSA what he took. He ascribes the fact that they continue to be surprised to incompetence, but I am not buying it.&nbsp; I think that acknowledging what was taken would put our state security apparatus in the position of validating some programs that have not yet come out:<\/li>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Snowden speculates that the government fears that the documents contain material that\u2019s deeply damaging\u2014secrets the custodians have yet to find. \u201cI think they think there\u2019s a smoking gun in there that would be the death of them all politically,\u201d Snowden says. \u201cThe fact that the government\u2019s investigation failed\u2014that they don\u2019t know what was taken and that they keep throwing out these ridiculous huge numbers\u2014implies to me that somewhere in their damage assessment they must have seen something that was like, \u2018Holy sh%$.\u2019 And they think it\u2019s still out there.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li>Some of the leaks appear not to have come from Snowden, which points to a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> whistle blower.<\/li>\n<li>The CIA&#8217;s IT infrastructure is archaic.<\/li>\n<li>Syria did not shut down its internet at the beginning of their civil war, it was an NSA cock-up:<\/li>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026One day an intelligence officer told him that TAO\u2014a division of NSA hackers\u2014had attempted in 2012 to remotely install an exploit in one of the core routers at a major Internet service provider in Syria, which was in the midst of a prolonged civil war. This would have given the NSA access to email and other Internet traffic from much of the country. But something went wrong, and the router was bricked instead\u2014rendered totally inoperable. The failure of this router caused Syria to suddenly lose all connection to the Internet\u2014although the public didn\u2019t know that the US government was responsible. (This is the first time the claim has been revealed.)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/qh7YUoQ.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/qh7YUoQ.jpg\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a>The NSA has setup&nbsp; a program called Monstermind, which would have it launching cyber-attacks against other nations <b>without human intervention<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>The final straw for him was when James clapper flat out lied to congress about spying on Americans.&nbsp; (I liked his use of the phrase, &#8220;Banality of Evil,&#8221; to describe this, though I didn&#8217;t like his use of the boiling frog metaphor, which is scientifically inaccurate)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are more revelations to come.<\/p>\n<p>It is really worth the read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He gave a rather expansive interviewed with Wired. Here are the most recent revelations: He left &#8220;bread crumbs&#8221; which should have let shown the NSA what he took. He ascribes the fact that they continue to be surprised to incompetence, but I am not buying it.&nbsp; I think that acknowledging what was taken would put &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1002,1102,1129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-good-writing","category-intelligence","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}