Ask HN: Could Snowden still be a U.S. agent?

by educating on 9/13/2013, 12:24:12 PM with 1 comments
Was just thinking to myself that Snowden:

1. Only gave away enough information to make people respect how much power the NSA and U.S. govt has.

2. By giving away that information it gave the NSA/U.S. govt reason to put money towards ensuring secrecy of its information, which may have been in danger after cutbacks.

Reasonable?

  • by xzcvczx on 9/13/2013, 1:00:06 PM

    not really....

    With the new information available to the general public IF and i mean IF they really wanted to do something nasty it would now be easy to provide mis-information in a way that has a good chance of being picked up and using it as a distraction to actually do something.

    While they have access to a lot of communication sneaker-net is still a lot more likely to be untraced and therefore a lot harder to snoop on.