> Laura Poitras is not an agent. She was on the watch list of the Department
of Homeland Security before she even knew Snowden existed. And Glenn
Greenwald, who is not an agent either,
You raise a valid point here. That people singled out by and under scrutiny
of NSA were *apparently* able to communicate securely, under the nose of NSA,
by just using a hardened GNU/Linux (Tails) and PGP.
For one, as I have already stated in one my posts above, I don't take
examples as precedents.
Second, I am not assuming anything. It could be due to luck, it could be due
to the plan, it could be something else.
It (the whole lot of the story) could still be some kind of theatre. I can't
guarantee that it was *not* a premeditated scenario by the Big Brother. There
are already a couple of reasons coming to my mind, and there may be much
deeper reasons than those.
E.g.;
* Such an incident would intimidate people to self-censoring.
* It indirectly implies that: "All these security fuss is really much ado
about nothing. Just use Linux and PGP and you are good to go - even against
NSA even when they single you out. Relax people, already!" A substantial and
subliminal message to all.
We can't assess the stakes involved, the greater plan. We can't talk for the
Big Brother. So neither assertion, nor rejection (of such shenanigans) would
make sense.
That carries me to my starting point: That I don't make assumptions, and I
don't take examples as precedents.
