Comment by 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.
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That’s a one sided view. Secrecy is also used to hide corruption and crimes. There is plenty of corruption going on just within the CIA.
"Snowden's aim was to damage the US and its allies, and he succeeded in this."
I doubt it but if you have a source I'll check it out. Third party speculation doesn't count, obviously.
I call BS. The Snowden files completely rewrote the rules of security inside Google and everywhere and led to zero-trust. These companies are now protected against this unlawful hacking of the government on their local companies and thus also better protected from governments around the world. Ironically, the leaks made the US more secure.
Are you thinking of Julian Assange? I'm not aware of Edward Snowden releasing anything that might have resulted in the deaths of field agents.
There is a non-zero number of documents that are classified as Top Secret not for national security but because corrupt shitheads are in control of classifying documents.
>Snowden's aim was to damage the US and its allies, and he succeeded in this.
Dude, nobody's buying this nonsense. Snowden expressed his concerns multiple times. He talked about the surveillance enabling turn-key tyranny, if ever a fascist leader would rise into power in the US. And look what's happening now. He was right, and thank god he blew the whistle, as that gave privacy activists a decade long headstart to get end-to-end encryption deployed.
Given that our incompetent security policies apparently granted full access to people with no conceivable need to know (see also Manning), the bad guys already had all that stuff. If that wasn't the case before, it certainly is now, with Trump in office.
Law-abiding US citizens are pretty much the only ones who didn't know what was being done in their names. That's the only thing the Snowden disclosures changed.