Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey

Re:Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Sena... by acqq on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @03:56PM (#6054335)

Then better, he gives two halves to at least 4 people (2 copies of each half, to prevent "denial of opening" if one person is blocked) he keeps nothing. He personally doesn't need the data. Publicly interesting things are by journalists. The "don't try to kill me" data is at best when not by him at all.

I posit there's nothing earth shaking on his own notebooks anymore.

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Re:Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Sena... by cschmidt on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @04:24PM (#6054505)

I think that as well. If I knew I were going to go on the run and be in custody in unknown countries, I wouldn't want to be traveling with anything secret on my person. Get the data all distributed however you want before you go, and just have your laptop for communication. The press always says he has 4 government laptops. Why would you want to carry them around?

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Re:Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Sena... by acqq on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @04:30PM (#6054545)

If I remember, nobody authoritatively claimed that he took anything else physical but copied the secret data to the USB stick. If he had to use a stick then there were never notebooks with secret data that he could take.

Some article somewhere mentioned that he carries 4 notebooks, and then the press started fear mongering and compromiting him by insinuating that the notebooks are full of secrets and government property. Can anybody quote an official claim that the notebooks aren't his own?

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