On June 14, 2015 6:27:18 AM Zenaan Harkness <[email protected]> wrote:
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Seems like they'd want to keep something like this quiet if their
> operatives really were in danger. Jmo.
Well, may be not.
<can't resist>Lie back, relax. Now imagine you're 5 years old.</>
Actually, so you have 20 operatives in say North Korea and you need to
contact them urgently so they know their holiday picture taking is
over and must return post haste, since their holiday cover is about to
be blown - how do you contact them without personally contacting them,
to maximise their safety?
Is a daily Tor sign in the best idea for operatives in other
countries? Of course for those who do their daily Tor duty, they
presumably will be notified.
So perhaps just reading the daily newspaper from the country from
which you're officially on holiday from? "Oh, there's some
international spy scandal going on, think we better leave now dear,
since we foreigners might be targetted regardless - how about an
opportunistic trip South?"
You do raise a valid point (and I enjoy "explain it like I'm five!") It's
an angle I hadn't considered; I should wait to reply until I'm not in the
throes of insomnia ;)
The larger points, which occurred after I'd already hit 'send': where did
they get this 'cache'? (Snowden insists he released what he had to
Greenwald/Poitras et al in HK, and until proven otherwise I choose to
believe him.) Sure, I guess he could have been blackmailed / rubberhosed...
And the TLAs whine loudly about being thwarted by encryption, when they
themselves have weakened EC anyway, and Russia/China have decrypted it but
not the US?! Why would they even admit to that...
I can't put my finger on it, and I'll readily admit I'm biased in that I
don't trust the five eyes or their propaganda at all, but there is just
something "off" about this whole thing.
-S
