Every time I read something about Snowden it cracks me up. He speaks and then the media eat up every single word he mutters.
He's the perfect NSA disinformation agent.
He "steals" a load of documents, then gives them to one news source to disseminate how they see fit. Most of the files contain information most people in the infosec industry had been saying for years - so nothing earth shattering or really eye opening. Wired even wrote a story about the Utah data center close to 6 months before Snowden released any of his documents: https://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
And I'm still not sure everything has been released, but then it sets in motion a flurry every time the guy opens his mouth. Virtually every piece of information he's speaking on can't be verified, we just have to take him at his word that we believe what he's saying, and somehow he now has this air of credibility based on what? Some released documents which really just made people say, "Oh yeah, we always thought that, now it just confirms it."
In the meantime, the NSA feigns outrage, senators brandish him a traitor, the Left brandishes him a patriot and now whatever he says people just eat up and say, "Well Eddy Snowden believes this is what the NSA is up to - SO IT MUST BE TRUE." regardless of whether the information can even be verified or not - basically allowing the NSA to shovel whatever disinformation they want to the public.
I don't what it is about Snowden, but it just reeks of a disinformation operation. I've always been leery when one person is the sole source for any kind of information (which can't be verified in any serious manner) and news agencies and the public just eat it up.
He's the perfect NSA disinformation agent.
He "steals" a load of documents, then gives them to one news source to disseminate how they see fit. Most of the files contain information most people in the infosec industry had been saying for years - so nothing earth shattering or really eye opening. Wired even wrote a story about the Utah data center close to 6 months before Snowden released any of his documents: https://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
And I'm still not sure everything has been released, but then it sets in motion a flurry every time the guy opens his mouth. Virtually every piece of information he's speaking on can't be verified, we just have to take him at his word that we believe what he's saying, and somehow he now has this air of credibility based on what? Some released documents which really just made people say, "Oh yeah, we always thought that, now it just confirms it."
In the meantime, the NSA feigns outrage, senators brandish him a traitor, the Left brandishes him a patriot and now whatever he says people just eat up and say, "Well Eddy Snowden believes this is what the NSA is up to - SO IT MUST BE TRUE." regardless of whether the information can even be verified or not - basically allowing the NSA to shovel whatever disinformation they want to the public.
I don't what it is about Snowden, but it just reeks of a disinformation operation. I've always been leery when one person is the sole source for any kind of information (which can't be verified in any serious manner) and news agencies and the public just eat it up.
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