Re:Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport
by wil421 on Thursday August 01, 2013 @08:35AM
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Yes but the point is he brought his treasure trove of intel with him.
Re:Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport
by 4bpp on Thursday August 01, 2013 @09:11AM
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What sort of cold war spy movie scenario are you imagining? If he wanted to give the data to the Russians or Chinese, he could just have uploaded it somewhere for them to grab. On the other hand, I would assume that he knows how to encrypt things well enough that nicking his laptops while he's not looking would be pretty much useless.
Re:Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport
by vasilipupkin on Thursday August 01, 2013 @12:38PM
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yes. And how can you be 100% sure that he has not given what's on those laptops to the Russians voluntarily ?
Re:Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport
by scott_karana on Thursday August 01, 2013 @01:19PM
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Who cares if we can't be sure? We can't be sure if he hasn't released a super-hacker sci-fi bacteria infection on New York, either.
Only time will tell.
Re:Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport
by vasilipupkin on Thursday August 01, 2013 @02:15PM
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We should care that we can't be sure about something as important as Snowden's dealings with Putin government, if only to slow down rush to judgement, when situation is uncertain.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend should be pretty obvious once you're running from a government that does not think twice about murdering their own citizens.