He Was a Hacker for the NSA and He Was Willing to Talk. I Was Willing to Listen

Re:He Was a Hacker for the NSA and He Was Willing to Talk. I... by batbomb on Sunday July 03, 2016 @04:55PM (#12027580)

This is garbage. There is easily enough information to uniquely identify him (lamb of god, religious convictions, recently left the NSA, social media), which calls into question the entire premise of the article.

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Re:He Was a Hacker for the NSA and He Was Willing to Talk. I... by AdeptusAquinas on Sunday July 03, 2016 @07:37PM (#12028130)

Those details seemed to be highlighted almost, which means Id assume the journalist made them up to anonymise the hacker.

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Re:He Was a Hacker for the NSA and He Was Willing to Talk. I... by harry8 on Sunday July 03, 2016 @08:54PM (#12028379)

The NSA can ID him. It's not just the NSA he'd want to be anonymous from. "Famous" NSA Hacker guy - target for every wannabe braggart script-kiddie etc. He might be comfortable with the NSA knowing who he is and that he's talking the intercept but not comfortable with his local shopkeeper, his kid's grade-school teacher, priest knowing the same.

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Re:He Was a Hacker for the NSA and He Was Willing to Talk. I... by mmaunder on Sunday July 03, 2016 @05:36PM (#12027723)

Thanks. It started feeling like Wired after a few paragraphs so I bailed. Filler piece I guess.

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Re:He Was a Hacker for the NSA and He Was Willing to Talk. I... by drawnwren on Sunday July 03, 2016 @05:43PM (#12027755)

Are the leaks redacted originally? If not, all someone would have to do would be cross reference the linked slides with the originals.

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Re:He Was a Hacker for the NSA and He Was Willing to Talk. I... by efes on Sunday July 03, 2016 @08:53PM (#12028373)

Maybe he didn't want it comming up when HR departments do background checks.. But another possibility is that the real person that corresponds to the leaked messages isnt such a perfect shill, but he can't complain as this PR imposter never claimed to be him.

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Re:He Was a Hacker for the NSA and He Was Willing to Talk. I... by anf on Sunday July 03, 2016 @05:30PM (#12027702)

How so? I'm sure he revealed exactly as much as he intended to by his surroundings. He's not exactly leaking classified info, just contributing a personal opinion.

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