If anybody knows about how to secure electronic communications, it’s Edward Snowden. So, during an interview with Al Jazeera English set to air on Friday, he gave his thoughts about the security of the private server on which Hillary Clinton allegedly stored emails that were later deemed classified.
“This is a problem because anyone who has the clearances that the secretary of state has, or the director of any top level agency has, knows how classified information should be handled,” Snowden said.
He went on to argue that an “ordinary worker” at the State Department or the CIA “would not only lose their jobs and lose their clearance, they would very likely face prosecution for it” for doing the same thing Clinton did with her emails and called the idea that they were secure “completely ridiculous.”
Snowden may have some reasons to dislike Hillary Clinton, who accused him of giving “all kinds of information” to terrorists during a Q&A session last year .... http://www.mediaite.com
Glenn Greenwald, a US journalist who published the first reports on documents leaked by Edward Snowden, says allegations in the British press that Russian and Chinese spies accessed Snowden’s documents are lies aimed at smearing the whistleblower.
Greenwald, writing in the Intercept, said that reports by the BBC and the Sunday Times that claimed Chinese and Russian intelligence services had access to Snowden’s files is based on the false premise that he kept them.
The Sunday Times cited a UK government source claiming that British agents in Russia and China had to be removed after Beijing and Moscow had gained access to Snowden’s top secret documents .... http://rt.com
The secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, artificially inflate pageview counts on web sites, “amplif[y]” sanctioned messages on YouTube, and censor video content judged to be “extremist.” The capabilities, detailed in documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, even include an old standby for pre-adolescent prank callers everywhere: A way to connect two unsuspecting phone users together in a call.
The tools were created by GCHQ’s Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), and constitute some of the most startling methods of propaganda and internet deception contained within the Snowden archive .... https://firstlook.org
US whistleblower Edward Snowden has been awarded The Right Livelihood Award, commonly known as the Alternative Nobel Prize in Stockholm. The ceremony began after a top Green Party politician said the American should be granted asylum in Sweden, sparking a global debate .... http://www.thelocal.se
Should Edward Snowden be considered a hero for revealing how U.S. surveillance programs operate? One of the most prominent figures in the technology world thinks so.
RT's Worlds Apart sat down with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who explained his views on the NSA leaker and his revelations.
The New York Times was asked by British authorities to destroy classified intelligence files leaked to the media by former national security contractor Edward Snowden, Reuters reports.
According to the report published Friday afternoon, the executive editor of the Times was approached by a senior official at the British Embassy earlier this month and was asked to purge any files her paper had received about UK intelligence from Mr. Snowden.
The editor, Jill Abramson, responded to the Britain’s request with silence, sources told Reuters journalist Mark Hosenball .... http://rt.com
The "Black Budget" is taxpayer money used for spying and intelligence. We should all know what Uncle Sam is spending our tax dollars on.
The paper’s editor Alan Rusbridger said they were threatened of court action by the British government is they failed to destroy the files, containing US security secrets, or hand them to authorities.
The paper, which has revealed part of the information it apparently obtained from Snowden, was in the middle of publishing embarrassing material on mass surveillance programs led by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and its British counterpart the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
Rusbridger said they were contacted by "a very senior government official claiming to represent the views of the prime minister" adding that the official “demanded the return or destruction of all the material we were working on." .... http://www.presstv.ir
