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In reply to the discussion: Snowden: My Leak Has Benefited 'Every Society In The World' [View all]ProSense
(116,464 posts)2. Snowden Says The Government Still Has No Idea What He Gave To Reporters
Snowden Says The Government Still Has No Idea What He Gave To Reporters
Edward Snowden snuck a little jab at the government into his appearance at SXSW Interactive on Monday.
Asked if it was just a matter of time before the government could decrypt even the best encryption, the former National Security Agency contractor held up his own case as evidence that encryption works to protect data from surveillance.
"The United States government has assembled a massive investigative team" to look into him and his leak of top secret NSA documents, Snowden said. "And they still have no idea what documents were provided to the journalists, what they have, what they don't have. Because encryption works."
Snowden also suggested that encryption has kept the documents he leaked out of the hands of foreign governments, like Russia and China.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/snowden-sxsw-documents-encryption
Edward Snowden snuck a little jab at the government into his appearance at SXSW Interactive on Monday.
Asked if it was just a matter of time before the government could decrypt even the best encryption, the former National Security Agency contractor held up his own case as evidence that encryption works to protect data from surveillance.
"The United States government has assembled a massive investigative team" to look into him and his leak of top secret NSA documents, Snowden said. "And they still have no idea what documents were provided to the journalists, what they have, what they don't have. Because encryption works."
Snowden also suggested that encryption has kept the documents he leaked out of the hands of foreign governments, like Russia and China.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/snowden-sxsw-documents-encryption
Snowden: The U.S. Government has no idea what I gave to reporters in Russia and China, but encryption has kept the documents he leaked out of the hands of foreign governments, like Russia and China, whose media are state-owned.
Genius!
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He's now the front runner for the O'Reilly Prize, awarded annualy to the most self-important ...
11 Bravo
Mar 2014
#6
Well, he's certainly provided for a lot of amusement at the way the regime playing CYA about the NSA
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2014
#7
I'm guessing this is directly relevant to the topic of the NSA and its over-reach
LanternWaste
Mar 2014
#12
I keep forgetting the person is more important than than the policy to far too many of the dogmatic
LanternWaste
Mar 2014
#25
If that isn't true, why do people get so upset when anyone criticizes Snowden?
ProSense
Mar 2014
#29
He's still trying for clemency and needs to tell everyone how important he is.
ProSense
Mar 2014
#32
Obsessive desire to be seen as a hero, i.e.: Narcissism and/or Megalomania nt
stevenleser
Mar 2014
#46
It doesn't suggest any such thing. I already believed this from prior statements of his. This just
stevenleser
Mar 2014
#51
+1, this is the biggest tell tale of GG assholeness level... Snowden in the lurch GG raking it in
uponit7771
Mar 2014
#59
Winner of the Sam Adams award, Germany's Whistleblower Prize, elected to serve as Rector at the
Luminous Animal
Mar 2014
#60