Re:Duck Duck Go: Illusion of Privacy (2013)
by djsumdog on Sunday September 24, 2017 @11:11AM
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> Snowden
Snowden, a man who worked from home in Hawaii as an NSA contractor making over $200k a year with his smoking hot girlfriend, who suddenly decided he had a moral compass, was able to download tons of classified files over VPN to his laptops and run off to meet Greenwald et. al. to divulge all this information, then flee to Russia where he sends out anti-Russian tweets.
Meanwhile, nothing has happened. The NSA is still spying. PRISM seems to be something everyone has forgotten about (did it even exist? Most companies denied it). His evidence were all rededicated power point slides.
Question the narratives that are given to you.
Re:Duck Duck Go: Illusion of Privacy (2013)
by enraged_camel on Sunday September 24, 2017 @02:54PM
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What does Snowden's girlfriend have anything to do with... well, anything?
Re:Duck Duck Go: Illusion of Privacy (2013)
by mancerayder on Sunday September 24, 2017 @09:41PM
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I'm not sure what the poster was getting at - are security contractors with smoking hot girlfriends making 200k a year less credible such that we should explore conspiracy theories?
If so, poor security contractors (and their apparently less appealing girlfriends) with our cynical assumptions.
In the context of the history of the CIA and NSA it's standard procedure. And that's just the stuff we know about. Certainly Snowden taught us anything is possible, that they have no restraint.
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On the other hand, politely asking an outfit like Equifax for (just about) ALL their data with no real reason would be out of character. Why bother? Why go on record?
It's pretty simple. Why would they get via hack? Answer: Because they can.