951
Set aside your feelings the example, for a moment. Can you imagine a US cabinet official nowadays going to jail for implementing a criminal policy? Secretary of State? Homeland Security? Attorney General?
Remember what happened when "we tortured some folks?" What would it take? twitter.com/alfonslopezten…
952
No matter your political religion, a courtroom legitimacy crisis is a bad omen. twitter.com/ABC/status/148…
953
Seems like a good day for this: edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/cbdcs
954
It's a meme, not financial advice. My financial advice is that if you're trying to find trading signals in dog memes, you should probably stop.
956
This you?
Because it sure looks like you were trying to destroy a promising young woman's reputation in front of extremely powerful members of her industry—with precious little to support your claims.
I guess my eyes deceive me. twitter.com/nntaleb/status…
957
The easier it becomes to produce information, the harder that information becomes to consume — and the harder we have to work to separate the spurious from the significant. edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/conspiracy-p…
958
"I wanted PGP to be used for human rights applications—to spread all over the world, especially to places where people needed protection from their own governments. But I couldn't say that out loud, because it would help the prosecutor prove intent." philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/PGP_…
959
the tiktok meta:
a) five seconds of cooking,
b) ten seconds of dancing, or
c) fifteen seconds of crying.
960
Before people accuse going unpardoned as influencing my rhetoric, here are the receipts showing me saying exactly the same thing last year on national TV: newsweek.com/edward-snowden…
961
I understand people feel socially obligated to be like "reeeeeee glenn greenwald REEEEEE" these days because he is a reliably disagreeable obstacle to The Consensus, but few of his peers have been as loud or consistent in opposing the growing campaign against press freedoms. twitter.com/ggreenwald/sta…
962
@poordart The idea of a watchlist is antiquated, because mass surveillance means everyone is on it. It's a ranked ladder, a tier-list. You can't get off it: you can only move up or down.
963
"My experience is that as people get closer to the press, they often like it less." —@emilybell
She told me that over five years ago, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/st…
964
NSO has no way to know if anyone has done this in the past—or is continuing to do this right now. Exploit code can be caught and copied.
Just as with a biological virus, it takes just a single digital infection for the possibility of retransmission—and mutation. Ban the trade. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
965
Contrast the @washingtonpost's half-hearted editorial, suggesting with downcast eyes that Israel and Saudi Arabia could perhaps stamp a few more papers before next murdering one of their columnists, with the Guardian invoking moratorium and liability: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
966
Remember when everybody said this guy was suffering from mental illness? Can't understand why.
967
En français: interhop.org/le-gouvernemen… twitter.com/Snowden/status…
969
Because everything with McAfee is complicated, it turns out he was still born American after all -- he was merely born outside the United States. I regret regretting the error.
970
"Twitter will still have a free tier."
Yeah, but if pay-to-win accounts are prioritized for visibility, as Elon suggested, you're going to be drowned in tweets by the lethally boring blob that will expense annual Twitter Blue subs via line items in institutional budgets.
971
There are ways to make this app print money, and ways to kill it, @elonmusk. Put people over ads and you'll get both, but "ads over people leads to neither."
972
Much discussion of former TI reporters' failings misses:
1) No reporter could have prevented Winner's discovery as the news source.
2) That doesn't require Winner to be "naive" (NYT) or "clumsy" (WP). It is heroism to prioritize the public's right to know over one's own safety. twitter.com/theintercept/s…
973
On Feb 9th, I'll be unveiling the new Young Reader's edition of my first book, Permanent Record, with the far-sighted @doctorow. There are very few books like this accessible for children. copperfieldsbooks.com/event/edward-s…
974
Looks like something very interesting may be happening in smartphone security.
(GrapheneOS is a much more secure variant of the Android operating system, but has traditionally only been supported on Google's Pixel phone.) twitter.com/GrapheneOS/sta…
975
"Our combat mission in Afghanistan is ending, and the longest war in American history is coming to a responsible conclusion." — @BarackObama, 2014
obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-offi… twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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