

Edward Snowden  (Source:
Snowden is releasing more details about the NSA's tactics




Microsoft engineers found the flaw in 2007. 







Source: The New York Times

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RE: What I don't understand about this guy...
By TSS on 9/6/2013 6:58:10 PM , Rating: 5
I'm going to show the people of Gotham that the city doesn't belong to the criminals and the corrupt. People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy. I can't do this as Bruce Wayne. A man is just flesh and blood and can be ignored or destroyed. But as a symbol... as a symbol, I can be incorruptible, everlasting.

In reality though it's the other way around. If he'd release everything anonymously it could've been discredited. Afterall no lives would be on the line, nobody would know who it was coming from, it could all be just make believe again. But since he's put a face to the information, and we can check and see his existance for ourselves... what he's revealing has credibility. That credibility has then allowed him to become a symbol, rather then just a man of flesh and blood.

The government cannot deny his existance, or his record, merely discredit what he's saying. And with the smart, timed releases of information he's proven them to be the liars time and time again.

Wether he wanted to be a hero or not, he is one. And i'm guessing he didn't because he gave up a high paying job, girlfriend, home etc. for a life on the run. There will be no medals for Edward Snowden, all he has is the knowledge he did the right thing.

Want a perfect example of somebody who wanted to be a hero, but just isn't? Bradley Manning. Releasing tons of unimportant information unchecked out of spite, anonymously. Doesn't quite sound like a hero now does it?

But yknow what, let's not discuss wether Snowden is a hero or not. Because that is yet another distraction from the real issue. Let's discuss who the Villains are.

Have you see any arrests or prosecution of people who have lied to congress? Yknow, the people who continuously said "no this isn't happening", of whom Snowden then proved to be lieing time and again?

I think that's a far more productive discussion to have...

RE: What I don't understand about this guy...
By FITCamaro on 9/9/13, Rating: -1
By sorry dog on 9/12/2013 12:01:58 PM , Rating: 2
Revealing intelligence to our enemies that will only make it harder for us to know what they're doing though is stupid, dangerous, and wrong.

Sure, Snowden made some serious errors in the way he made his disclosures, but there ain't exactly a manual on how to bust the government for lying. If there is any security loss, you can blame the NSA just as much as any one person. Their thinly veiled tactics and bold faced lies under oath sort of made something like this happening inevitable.

