tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post8274914684399188291..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: Snowden's secretUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-61598702472379918032013-06-10T11:32:16.450-05:002013-06-10T11:32:16.450-05:00Well, according to this, almost half a million peo...Well, according to <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/06/contract-security-clearance-charts/66059/" rel="nofollow">this</a>, almost half a million people working for Booz ALONE have Top Secret clearance. So likely Snowden did, too.<br /><br />Which means we have two problems: lots of data being sucked up by NSA; and lots of that data being accessible to lots of Snowdens.<br /><br />Oh, that is so much worse than anything else I'd imagined.....Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-48860663237373711822013-06-10T11:16:09.431-05:002013-06-10T11:16:09.431-05:00My favorite line now is that, while Snowden made a...My favorite line now is that, while Snowden made a big deal out of himself in two Guardian articles (which are both about Snowden, not about what he revealed; those are in separate articles), the complaint is we are being distracted by the messenger instead of the message.<br /><br />However, it appears Snowden has many a crack in his story. He went from security guard at the NSA to the CIA, back to the NSA via a private contractor, in Japan? And reports are nearly 500,000 people have "top secret" clearance? Did they really give that clearance to a 29 year old, so he could work for Booz Allen?<br /><br />I'm sure this program exists. I'm not sure it's as loosey-goosey as Snowden says it is. I'm disturbed by what the NSA could be doing; but I'm equally disturbed that I don't really know anymore now than I did before, except I'm supposed to believe what Greenwald and Snowden have publicized.<br /><br />Because it's true and can be trusted?Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-58513932140070195282013-06-10T11:06:50.418-05:002013-06-10T11:06:50.418-05:00Really, I've always figured the NSA was soppin...Really, I've always figured the NSA was sopping up everything I did over the phone, nevermind online. They probably even sopped up the record of some of my research, which I stopped because I realized it was likely illegal. Didn't everyone on the left ? figure someone was tapping? <br /><br />I can't help but get over the irony of Snowdon taking refuge in that bastion of privacy, China. Hong Kong? I remember, as Britain was giving it back to China a Canadian commenting on the supreme irony of Britain suddenly being concerned about democracy in Hong Kong. Chris Patten, the last Governor General, and it really meant something then, was beside himself over it. It's just so weird that he wouldn't have chosen a safer place to take it on the lam. <br />The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.com