Can someone provide a summary of what he says? Anything surprising?
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Snowden's talk at Bitcoin 2019 conference [video]
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#12"This conference is being live streamed, except for this session..." Why's that?
Probably because Snowden is a VIP who has people looking for him (US government, for example). A live stream would be a liability, kind of a breadcrumb trail, potentially exposing his current location.
Doesn't need to be live to reveal location.
2 loudspeakers playing pseudorandom white noise, inaudable from a few hundred yards away, would probably still leak any location in the city, as long as the stream isn't too aggressively compressed.
Correlating with a known signal over hundreds of thousands of audio samples has a massive snr gain...
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#13Can someone provide a summary of what he says? Anything surprising?
In summary he said HODL.
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#14"This conference is being live streamed, except for this session..." Why's that?
Probably because Snowden is a VIP who has people looking for him (US government, for example). A live stream would be a liability, kind of a breadcrumb trail, potentially exposing his current location.
I have my doubts that his location is that much of a mystery that is needed to be protected.
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#15Sadly unable to understand half of what they were saying so I gave up after 3 minutes and found this version which seems to be at least a tiny bit better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVN13ad3UUk
Thanks for the link. It's still hard to listen sadly. If only an official version was released.
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#16Sadly unable to understand half of what they were saying so I gave up after 3 minutes and found this version which seems to be at least a tiny bit better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVN13ad3UUk
OK, we changed to that from https://www.pscp.tv/w/1OwGWkEjeoDGQ.
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#17"This conference is being live streamed, except for this session..." Why's that?
Probably because Snowden is a VIP who has people looking for him (US government, for example). A live stream would be a liability, kind of a breadcrumb trail, potentially exposing his current location.
If the US government really wanted Snowden dead, they could get him dead. They very likely know where he lives. They are the most sophisticated intelligence collection entity in the world, after all. Snowden is not protected by secrecy, he is protected by the fact that he lives in Russia and killing him would be a provocation to Russia, possibly resulting in the assasination of people that Russia dislikes who are under US protection. Also I guess because they want to put Snowden before a court of some sort, even if it's an unfair trial.
Now, why does he apply counterintelligence measures? Why doesn't he share his location on twitter all the time? My theory is that it's some kind of rule of the intelligence community: if you would be too open, you would basically insult the rules this world is playing by. It would be like dancing in the crosshair at the korean border. Nobody wants to be insulted.
Re: Snowden's talk at Bitcoin 2019 conference [video]
#18Sadly unable to understand half of what they were saying so I gave up after 3 minutes and found this version which seems to be at least a tiny bit better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVN13ad3UUk
For those trying out either this link or the OP link, Snowden modifies his audio settings a bit around the 5 minute mark and is much more understandable then.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless he's worried about a drone strike while in his Moscow apartment, I can't see there'd be a problem.
Yeah, it's not like CIA agents would kidnap him or something. Would never happen, right? https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/beyond-...
While I'm sure the they would love to get their hands on him, pulling off a kidnapping from under the noses of several Russian intelligence agencies in the heart of their domain seems like a stretch, even for the CIA.
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#20"This conference is being live streamed, except for this session..." Why's that?
Probably because Snowden is a VIP who has people looking for him (US government, for example). A live stream would be a liability, kind of a breadcrumb trail, potentially exposing his current location.
They know _exactly_ where he is. Putin keeps him protected for shits & giggles.