On Sun, 03 May 2015 23:00:02 -0700 Seth <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I posted about this exact issue back in December, mostly to the sound > of crickets. > > To recap the timeline: > > Sometime late 2012 - Snowden emails Runa Sandvik and provides his > real name and address in order to obtain some Tor stickers. *** Link > between his legal identity and the [email protected] email > appears to have been established at this point to anyone monitoring > his communications *** Discussion leads to the idea to host a > Cryptoparty. [1] > > December 1, 2012: Snowden emails Greenwald for the first time via > [email protected] address [1] > > December 11, 2012: Snowden hosts the Cryptoparty in Hawaii while > waiting for Greenwald to reply. Party is organized USING THE SAME > [email protected] address as a point of contact on the public > cryptoparty web site. [2] > > Jan. 2013: Snowden reaches out to Laura Poitras, a documentary > filmmaker. [3] > ... etc > This is not exactly what you would call keeping a low profile or > 'good OPSEC' for a person actively planning to drop the biggest Intel > leak in history. > > I find this unbelievable. Are you saying the alleged facts you listed are not true? (that's a possibility) But if you assmue all that is true, then my view fits nicely. He didn't bothered with 'opsec' because he didn't need to. > > [1] > https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140521/07124327303/snowden-ran-major-tor-exit-relay-hosted-cryptoparty-hawaii-while-waiting-greenwald-to-reply.shtml > > [2] > https://web.archive.org/web/20130327000851/https://cryptoparty.org/wiki/Oahu > > [3] > http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/edward-snowden-interview/edward-snowden-timeline-n114871 > > [4] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/statuses/344040301972815872
