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Originally Posted by klinton
don't worry , more info will leak.
yes i'm sorry that he is not like henry david thoreau (do you know who he was ? ;-) ) and didn't put himself to prison as "hero" of civil disobedience...better for him, no tortures.
by hacker - i mean in hacker spirit  |
i'm sure more will leak and i hope so too. rip the lid off the sucka. also, he's making shit up too, or someone in this news cycle is. he is currently being portrayed as knowing everything about everything nsa, with comments re: germany and such, but with 850,000 snoops, snowden certainly had only a slice of intel he had access to.
thanks for the clarification re: hacker in spirit, i can see that. that's not going to bode well for him in a more mainstream public setting, most people frown upon hackers. i understand what you are saying though, he could certainly be a hero to an subset of society that appreciates that *spirit* but i think time will show that by snowden himself making his actions look like the spirit of hacking, he's alienated himself.
every single one of his actions should be in the spirit of helping americans. that's what his own very words were way back when the telegraph 1st broke his story.
the thing is, i don't really give a shit about snowden, i give a shit about the shit. and the reason i am saying that and for having to sort this part out is due to snowden himself.
he can still return and face his accusers, he can leak all the rest of the docs in an automated way, he can reveal more in public in a trial, pre-trail, etc, he can keep this in the news cycle by returning. otherwise, i think the media will move on to plane crashes, etc.