Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons

Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by kafkaesq on Saturday April 08, 2017 @04:40PM (#14068897)

FWIW Snowden speculates "Circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility. Here's why that is significant" - https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/765514891813945344

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Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by doktrin on Saturday April 08, 2017 @04:50PM (#14068953)

That 13-point tweet series paints a surprisingly plausible picture. I'm looking forward to getting the full story in about 20 years time.

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Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by M_Grey on Saturday April 08, 2017 @05:31PM (#14069149)

We'll be very lucky if in 20 years, the world is still so free and functional as it is now... and I'm not trying to talk up the state of the world today.

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Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by doktrin on Saturday April 08, 2017 @06:19PM (#14069377)

I try to remain optimistic, because allows me to continue being largely complacent with and complicit in the slow decline of free and civil society.

Slightly tongue in cheek, but only slightly.

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Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by Natsu on Saturday April 08, 2017 @05:20PM (#14069101)

It's weird, though. Sure, it could be some kind of tit-for-tat thing, but I wonder more about 3rd party 'allies' in the middle east who have more to gain by pitting the US against Russia.

Then again, I'm sure that there are enough people and intelligence services in play to make everything confusing.

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