Snowden Disclosures Finally Hit 12 on a Scale of 1 to 10

Re:Snowden Disclosures Finally Hit 12 on a Scale of 1 to 10 by gwern on Saturday September 07, 2013 @08:29PM (#6347267)

PGP email. And Snowden has already specifically stated that a PGP/GPG encrypted document is safe from the NSA (assuming no one leaves around a plaintext or private key, anyway).

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Re:Snowden Disclosures Finally Hit 12 on a Scale of 1 to 10 by blcknight on Saturday September 07, 2013 @08:35PM (#6347287)

"Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it." - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-...

Bruce Schneier has said something similar, having seen some of the guardian documents. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/the_nsas_cryp...

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Re:Snowden Disclosures Finally Hit 12 on a Scale of 1 to 10 by sillysaurus2 on Saturday September 07, 2013 @08:30PM (#6347271)

I appreciate your comment, thank you. May I ask for a source where you got your info? It's probably accurate, but it's good practice to insist that hearsay not be trusted on faith.

EDIT: Ah, it appears to be confirmed at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/edward-snowden-glen... ... Thanks!

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Re:Snowden Disclosures Finally Hit 12 on a Scale of 1 to 10 by ewoodrich on Saturday September 07, 2013 @08:36PM (#6347292)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/edward-snowden-glen...

Second paragraph into the article describes Snowden's requirement to use PGP while contacting Greenwald at the least (although it's a tertiary source and very sparse in technical details).

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Re:Snowden Disclosures Finally Hit 12 on a Scale of 1 to 10 by sillysaurus2 on Saturday September 07, 2013 @08:55PM (#6347338)

Would anyone speculate on the technical details of what Snowden probably recommended Greenwald do, step by step? What steps would you recommend to Greenwald if you had been in Snowden's position?

It's not enough to merely tell people "install PGP." Snowden presumably went into meticulous detail about precisely how to be completely secure. Even something small like "here is the exact exe installer to download" is probably significant, because that would mean that specific installer is clean and free of NSA tampering.

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