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Here's a question: Do we think Snowden is intentionally misleading us to attack RSA and EMC, or that he's actually releasing as little information as he can to get us on the right track toward fixing things? Why would this particular piece of information be selected if it was not a real problem?

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I'm tired of having to correct people on this, but here goes: Snowden is not leaking anything anymore. He leaked most of the documents he had to some selected journalists a long time ago and it is now up to them to analyze them and responsibly report whatever interesting information there is to be learned from them.

Thank you for clarifying, Mike.

Deciding what is responsible is likely a coordinated effort. I think the same argument applies. Do we think someone might be being irresponsible here? Sensationalism, or real problem?

Yeah, I'm not too knowledgeable about the whole situtation, but I wish Snowden had leaked the documents to the public. It sucks having to trust the press. Assumedly if Snowden didn't like how they were handling it he'd step in in some way, though.

If he did, they'd just yell that he put everyone in life-threatening danger, like they did with Manning and also Wikileaks. I guess he wanted to avoid that level of accusations, although people like Mike Rogers still say that about him anyway:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131223/02311625673/rep-mi...

A post by Greenwald on the subject of "dump it all" vs. "vet and dribble":

http://utdocuments.blogspot.com.br/2013/12/questionsresponse...

By journalists. This also include anyone they might hire/recruit to help them in identifying what is valuable.

For example, Bruce Schneier helped to make the news articles around the tor network by going through the NSA documents.

Snowden says whatever keeps Putin happy, so that he doesn't sell his ass back to Americans.

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