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Reading that wiki page, it sounds like he's on his way to a long stint in prison, or worse. Wouldn't be surprised if he gets black-bagged now that he's attacking critical national infrastructure and encouraging others to do so.
Why do you keep saying "he"? It's pretty easy to respect people's pronouns...
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> down to other more selfish reasons, e.g. Edward Snowden's mass theft and leaking of NSA secrets. What was Snowden's selfish reasons?
In an attempt to sound like he had noble reasons for leaking hundreds of thousands of unrelated secret documents to journalists, Snowden claimed it was watching James Clapper's congressional testimony in March 2013 that triggered him to start downloading and exfiltrating classified material. This was a lie. He'd actually started collecting his trove of stolen documents many months prior, in mid-2012, coinciding with…
Did he say that the lies to congress were what "triggered to him to start downloading", or was that what finally convinced him to take the truth to the public instead of continuing to bring his concerns to other people within the intelligence community? If I remember correctly, he'd been investigating what looked to him like an unconstitutional program for a while.
> coinciding with arguments with his managers. He had a grudge against his employers,
Nobody gives up their well paying job (while also making sure they'll never work in their field again), risks their life and their life with their loving partner, gives up their freedom, gives up ever seeing their family again, etc all because they get into an argument with their boss.
> Even little things like his claimed $200k salary when it was actually closer to $100k-ish.
That'd be a weird thing to lie about, but he has clarified that issue. According to him the $200,000 was his "career high" salary. He took paycuts at Booz Allen Hamilton in order to get closer to the material he wanted to access. He ended up making $122,000 a year, but that wasn't the most he'd ever made doing intelligence work. Is there some evidence that shows he never made $200,000?
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Yes this is insane. I’m a U.S. citizen and if I’m not allowed to fly because of some arbitrary national security measure then that measure had better be public information and known before I book a ticket. If my government has denied you the right to travel without telling you why I genuinely and sincerely apologize and take responsibility because it should not work like that and ideally I should be able to vote out…
What if you are a US citizen, and it has recently been discovered you have been secretly dealing arms to Russia against current sanctions. And while authorities do not currently know your location they suspect you will be flying to/from Russia very soon? Should they let you know not to book a flight?
> with pretty much no skill required Seriously? I know like none of the tools or terms they used, like wtf is shodan? In general the author doesn't seem to follow the white hat guidelines, and I'd be worried what they've done is quite illegal (possibly on a federal level if the nofly list is so secret)
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> The last notable ban was Paul Graham for simply sharing their Mastodon handle. Paul Graham is a man, not a plural entity.
"the suspect jumped in their car and fled the scene" In English the word can be used as a singular pronoun
Right, so if you change it, then it's changed and it's different.
Appreciate the clarification
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A very modern convention is now using “they/their” when a person may not be aware of someone’s preferred pronoun. And even still, I have also seen people abandon gendered pronouns entirely.
It's also a very old method. In fact, he/she is a later evolution of the English language. "He/his" used to be more equivalent to "it/its". It wasn't until ~15th century that the modern "he/him" and "she/her" fully evolved. "They/them" meanwhile was in full use by the 14th century
People once walketh befide their mules, but now we gots lambos
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> Maia didn't share the data at all You literally immediately falsified that assertion: > and only offers to if someone can demonstrate they will use it responsibly. And nobody ever lies of course.
She had only shared it with known journalists that she had a relationship at time of writing, and seems pretty bright. Hypothetically she might get scammed by someone and irresponsibly disclose but let's not condemn her for it yet.
"Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead"
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I wonder what the motivation was. Anarchism is mentioned elsewhere, so if I wonder if that’s a motivating factor here. At any rate, I appreciate that people are trying their best to be respectful. Personally, I’d also prefer to use “she” if that’s alright with her (it?). This becomes confusing quickly when we’re also trying to use it abstractly to refer to arguments and concepts.
I totally understand wanting to be respectful, but respect goes both ways. She needs to respect the fact that her odd pronouns are literally breaking the English language for people who want to use them.
> Suspected members of the IRA, the Irish paramilitary organization, were also on the list. Oof the international politics always come out in things like this. Twitter also publicizes all of its suspensions and bans. There's a Wikipedia article with a list of all the notable suspensions since 2010. It's interesting to see that, contrary to popular narratives, many of the international groups banned were actually far-…