Why “Snowden” is being discussed
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I mean about the historiography, and your personal verdict on whether those systems were active, based on the evidence Snowden provided. A wiki is a summary, of the available ev…
by tonymet · Sep 21, 2026
There's this weird dichotomy where people think the folks that work in government are either evil geniuses or drooling cavemen. They are neither. I assure you that the NSA (with…
by mixmastamyk · Sep 21, 2026
SQL alone is just a query language. the MySQL design docs Snowden shared were primitive installations that did not meet the claimed capability of their surveillance system.
by tonymet · Sep 21, 2026
Snowden did not take refuge in Russia. He was trapped there when his passport was cancelled by the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden_asylum_in…
by jra_samba · Sep 21, 2026
Snowden was a false flag, a very craftily engineered one, however valuable prima facie, and a distractor, carefully timed, from things a lot more sinister.
by freebsd_lovefes · Sep 21, 2026
In current age there is no reason for Snowden not to do this: 1. Use all variants of local AI to categorize documents and remove PII. Different AI's can be used to doublecheck r…
by majkinetor · Sep 21, 2026
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