Re:Julian Assange: Edward Snowden is ‘marooned in Russia’
by Sven7 on Sunday June 30, 2013 @04:41PM
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Ah so the NSA has another NSA monitoring it...and then I guess it's turtles all the way down.
Re:Julian Assange: Edward Snowden is ‘marooned in Russia’
by drivebyacct2 on Sunday June 30, 2013 @05:47PM
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>They track people like that - constantly - it's not even the same as ordinary surveillance since anyone entering this world agrees to it.
Yeah, no one would ever be able to walk out with hard drive(s) full of data and then fly to hong kong and russia and leak it with that much nsa surveillance. Oops.
He did his actions with the view that being public and making this public was more important than the dire consequences that were very plausible.
And naturally, creating a false identity is much harder for someone who's had access to this information. They track people like that - constantly - it's not even the same as ordinary surveillance since anyone entering this world agrees to it.