three things came out of this for me (I saw the Newsnight interview a few days ago)
- Kirsty Wark represents quite well an old guard. Whilst part of the Scottish political Establishment she has acted intelligently and well as a journalist over the years, but it seems that this affair is simply a paradigm shift too far. In that I think she represents most people and most journalists. The government spies on everything online has not had the implications sink in just yet for 98% of the population
- We have had some truly dumb Ministers for Security "The Russians have everything" - really, they can crack AES / whatever in one shot?
- Just how did Snowden protect the data on one or more USB sticks? I am guessing he created a new key, mailed that to Greenwald (snail mail?) and then wiped everything. no point in beating some guy up whilst shouting "tell me the 4096 bytes in order !"
- Kirsty Wark represents quite well an old guard. Whilst part of the Scottish political Establishment she has acted intelligently and well as a journalist over the years, but it seems that this affair is simply a paradigm shift too far. In that I think she represents most people and most journalists. The government spies on everything online has not had the implications sink in just yet for 98% of the population
- We have had some truly dumb Ministers for Security "The Russians have everything" - really, they can crack AES / whatever in one shot?
- Just how did Snowden protect the data on one or more USB sticks? I am guessing he created a new key, mailed that to Greenwald (snail mail?) and then wiped everything. no point in beating some guy up whilst shouting "tell me the 4096 bytes in order !"