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Comment by Ms-J

1 day ago

This is insightful work, great job.

Recently someone else revisited the Snowden documents and also found more info, but I can't recall the exact details.

Snowden and the archives were absolute gifts to us all. It's a shame he didn't release everything in full though.

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libroot  1 day ago

Thank you. The most recent completely new information from the Snowden files is found in Jacob Appelbaum's 2022 thesis[1], in which he revealed information that had not been previously public (not found on any previously published documents and so on). And AFAIK, the most recent new information from the published documents (along with this post) might actually be in our other posts[2], but there might be some others we aren't aware of.

[1]: https://www.electrospaces.net/2023/09/some-new-snippets-from...

[2]: Part 2: https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-pa...

and part 3: https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-pa...

dfreel  1 day ago

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  • SAI_Peregrinus  1 day ago

    Snowden never had Russia as a destination, the US revoked his passport while he was waiting in a layover. He was stuck in the airport for months. How is it "telling" of anything?

  • Andrex  1 day ago

    The best way to fix a problem is to bring it into the light, not pretend it doesn't exist. "Security by obscurity" has been debunked for decades.

    If our system is so flawed Snowden's leaks would have blown everything up, maybe the system deserves to be blown up.

    Otherwise we're just papering over flaws which likely will be discovered and exploited eventually.

  • maqp  1 day ago

    >It is of course very telling that Snowden ended up in Russia.

    Yeah it's almost like you can revoke someone's passport during their layover in Russia and make the people with MAGA-levels of intelligence take the optics at face value through decade long repeated messaging.

    If Snowden was a Russian spy, he would've taken the files, given them to Putin, received the largest Datša in the country and we would never have heard from him or the files. Instead, he gave it to journalists who made the call what to release.

    If you don't want people to blow the whistle, stop breaking the damn law https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/03/edward-snowd...

    • dfreel  1 day ago

      Very naive to think that the Russian and Chinese governments didn't get a full copy of the documents Snowden stole and absconded with.

      How have so many people been taken in by this tall tale that Snowden is some sort of hero? Gullible doesn't even begin to cover it.

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