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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by saagarjha on Thursday October 22, 2020 @12:57PM (#24860206)
I wouldn't call revealing the extent of illicit NSA surveillance "zero gain".
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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by shadowgovt on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:43PM (#24860817)
If nothing else, it pushed Google to close the security hole the UK was using to harvest inter-datacenter data.
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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by Simulacra on Thursday October 22, 2020 @07:49PM (#24864611)
It nothing else, it pushed the governments to bury their secret programs even deeper. Nothing changed. The NSA is still spying on Americans, American technology companies are still working with governments to thwart human rights and spy on citizens, and Russia has just rewarded its best spy with residency. Net result zero.
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