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Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey

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Re: Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey

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post #15

Completely off-topic, but oh-my-god if the Guardian mobile website doesn't look so much better on a desktop browser than their non-mobile website... I thought they'd had a redesign for a moment.

Web site design is always on topic on HN. You are safe here.

Re: Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey

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post #15

Completely off-topic, but oh-my-god if the Guardian mobile website doesn't look so much better on a desktop browser than their non-mobile website... I thought they'd had a redesign for a moment.

This! A thousand times, this!

Re: Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey

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post #3

"Further, no intelligence service - not even our own - has the capacity to compromise the secrets I continue to protect. While it has not been reported in the media, one of my specializations was to teach our people at DIA how to keep such information from being compromised even in the highest threat counter-intelligence environments (i.e. China). You may rest easy knowing I cannot be coerced into revealing that info…

To offer an opposing view: I cannot be coerced into revealing that information, even under torture. That is a huge claim. I do not imagine that his training involved being tortured to make sure. If he's wrong, there could be dire consequences for the US. You might even say his ego is writing checks his body can't cash.

Maybe his information is encrypted such that it requires multiple parties to decrypt; i.e. his consent is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to decrypt his data, so that it wouldn't be revealed even under torture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing

Re: Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey

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The most interesting part of this is the following paragraphs from Snowden: Further, no intelligence service - not even our own - has the capacity to compromise the secrets I continue to protect. While it has not been reported in the media, one of my specializations was to teach our people at DIA how to keep such information from being compromised even in the highest threat counter-intelligence environments (i.e. Chi…

I can imagine systems that would be coercion proof, but I can't imagine any that would be coercion proof and also allow a dead mans switch, which I thought he had also claimed to have.

Re: Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

To offer an opposing view: I cannot be coerced into revealing that information, even under torture. That is a huge claim. I do not imagine that his training involved being tortured to make sure. If he's wrong, there could be dire consequences for the US. You might even say his ego is writing checks his body can't cash.

Snowden is FULL of crap.

Could you explain why?

Re: Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey

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post #15

Completely off-topic, but oh-my-god if the Guardian mobile website doesn't look so much better on a desktop browser than their non-mobile website... I thought they'd had a redesign for a moment.

Wow. Yes! I will be adding the m from here on out.

Re: Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey

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post #15

Completely off-topic, but oh-my-god if the Guardian mobile website doesn't look so much better on a desktop browser than their non-mobile website... I thought they'd had a redesign for a moment.

Wow, it's night and day. One is a clean usable site where I can clearly read a column of text for which this page exists. The other is a junked up ad/link/box mess and I have no idea what I'm looking at.

Re: Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey

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post #3

"Further, no intelligence service - not even our own - has the capacity to compromise the secrets I continue to protect. While it has not been reported in the media, one of my specializations was to teach our people at DIA how to keep such information from being compromised even in the highest threat counter-intelligence environments (i.e. China). You may rest easy knowing I cannot be coerced into revealing that info…

I think he comes off as naive and more than a little pompous, but I guess it's in the eye of the beholder.

Either way, if he really wants the focus back on the documents, he should probably write fewer letters about his beliefs, his security, and his personal situation.

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