On: Protecting Against Leakers

[narag]

... or they may have sold it to some foreign agency instead.

Don't forget corporations and individuals. And of course blackmail. That could be very profitable, specially against powerful people, politicians...

[jacquesm → narag]

Interesting angle. Makes you wonder if any politicians data was part of Snowden's haul. If so that opens up another can of worms.

If they didn't have segregated access (and it does not appear that they did) then that would have surely been too juicy to pass up. 20,000 documents is a lot.

This might also go some way to explaining the panic, if they don't know what he's got and he's had access to data like that then some people must really not be sleeping well right now.

[narag → jacquesm]

Makes you wonder if any politicians data was part of Snowden's haul.

It's safe to assume that most (every?) politicians data is part of NSA's haul. Add journalists.

I find the debate about surveillance terribly naive. Politicians get corrupted as soon as there's no one closely looking.

Creating such a surveillance and secret-keeping mammoth is calling for massive corruption. And this thing has been running for years.

[jacquesm → narag]

Yes, that the NSA has it is fairly obvious at this point but the question is whether or not Snowden took it. Is there any indication that he did?

[w_t_payne → narag]

Front-running is the obvious (and most profitable) application.