Glad to see this picking up some publicity. It was so awful it had me was shouting at the television.
The desire to create an adversarial interview without the interviewer having sufficient grasp of the subject to shed any light on it whatsoever. There are valid areas that could have been probed but she wasn't smart or well-informed enough to reach them.
From my limited familiarity with British politics, this is sadly how most of UK public thinks.
Case in point: some of the most egregious privacy violations were done by GCHQ as opposed to NSA, who contracted out the sensitive spying to UK because of lax legal regulations. But can you see any electoral upheaval in UK that would even hold a candle to things happening in US? No MPs protesting, no public protesting - nothing.
Even my UK friends in IT industry, spending all of their time online - are shrugging shoulders saying "but spies spy, that's what they do, what's the big deal". I feel that Kirsty is just reflecting that cultural background.
I don't think Greenwald really understands much about crypto, judging from some of his answers. I am glad the Guardian have real crypto experts looking at the stuff and writing articles now.
It's not really surprising. He's a journalist, not a security engineer. He doesn't need to know much about it as The Guardian probably has people in place to take care of things like crypto.
The desire to create an adversarial interview without the interviewer having sufficient grasp of the subject to shed any light on it whatsoever. There are valid areas that could have been probed but she wasn't smart or well-informed enough to reach them.