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Whatever your political inclination, it's astonishing how many question like this these days break down to a roughly 50/50 split, as if it were a choice between Coke or Pepsi. twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…
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Hard to believe, but it looks real. Every serious press freedom group in the world has protested this. It is an appalling symbol of how far the British and American governments' commitment to human rights has declined.
How can we condemn authoritarian abuses abroad like this? twitter.com/wikileaks/stat…
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The Taliban retaking Afghanistan in a matter of weeks as September 11th nears is a tragic symbol of the last decades.
Our governments abandoned law to wage fruitless wars, sacrificed our most sacred rights—and trampled the memory of those they claimed to avenge. Was it worth it?
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Everybody can get back to uninstalling #Whatsapp now. twitter.com/signalapp/stat…
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I designed a core backup system for the NSA (EPICSHELTER), and managed others at the CIA. They could survive war.
That the Secret Service's records disappeared the instant they became potential evidence is no accident, and no less criminal than the CIA destroying torture tapes.
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Treason—and for good reason. #July4th
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Do you think other major internet companies are secretly aiding the US military's psychological operations?
Reporters (and Congress, and governments around the world) should be *all over* Facebook, YouTube, and Reddit for answers. Where there's smoke, there's fire. twitter.com/lhfang/status/…
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One way of resolving all these secret-document scandals is to acknowledge that after 75 years of experimentation, the chief accomplishment of the "classification system" has been to make our government less trustworthy and our country less free.
Abolish and reform it. All of it.
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You taught us so much. I'll miss you, old friend.
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Israel has the right to defend itself against several dozen AP journalists and freelancers. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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This was more than 15 years ago now, but at the actual CIA, the default password used by the systems engineering team for *all kinds* of things was basically "password1234".
Not a joke. twitter.com/bankman_fraud/…
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Meus parabéns a @LulaOficial e ao Brasil pela vitória. twitter.com/folha/status/1…
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Scenes from the decline. twitter.com/johnschreiber/…
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He doesn't actually *know* if you've been bad or good, but historically speaking, people who engage in these kinds of unconstitutional activities (like @NSAGov) simply *pretend* to know. Instead, they make a guess and then kill people on the basis of that guess.
Merry Christmas.
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Sometimes I think back to this and wonder how many people bought #Bitcoin then.
It's up ~10x since, despite a coordinated global campaign by governments to undermine public understanding of—and support for—cryptocurrency.
China even banned it, but it just made Bitcoin stronger. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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I don't think I've ever seen anything like that.
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We probably stopped, right? That doesn't sound like us. We're the Good Guys. twitter.com/BankerWeimar/s…
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You're seeking a 175-year long sentence for an internationally award-winning publisher of news—despite protests from the United Nations, Amnesty International, the ACLU, the world's leading newspapers: nytimes.com/2021/02/12/us/… twitter.com/VP/status/1389…
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Bitcoin fixes this. twitter.com/business/statu…
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The last time we heard a White House considering a pardon was 2016, when the very same Attorney General who once charged me conceded that, on balance, my work in exposing the NSA's unconstitutional system of mass surveillance had been "a public service." nypost.com/2020/08/13/tru…
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Wow, even *I* handled classified documents more securely. At least I kept them encrypted!
(Via @nytimes)
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My infant son has just discovered he can sit up on his own, and quickly went mad with power.
It's well past bedtime, but I still hear him trying to decree that the Age of Sleep has ended.
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After the last couple years, hard to ignore the feeling that the CIA's Color Revolutions are coming home.
We may come to regret spending decades normalizing the practice of disregarding elections, the precedent for ousting presidents.
You can find me on #nostr @ pubkey: #npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9. (use Damus on iOS, Amethyst on Android, or snort.social)