He didn’t side with the Kremlin he chose not to go back to the Land of the Free and be tried for being a whistleblower or worse. Self-preservation.
Comment on NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I don’t trust him ever since he sided with the Kremlin. Also what is this website…
0x0@programming.dev 8 months ago
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Why go seek shelter from the Kremlin if he wasn’t already compromised? Seems like there are many better places he could have gone.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 8 months ago
Because the Kremlin would protect him and help him broadcast his message. It harms the US government, so the Kremlin sees providing Snowden with protection and a platform as an absolute win.
Most other countries that are remotely aligned with the US might be pressured to keep Snowden quiet.
Syn_Attck@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Cointelgraph is (was at least?) a reputable source for national security news.
Snowden chose Russia because the other option was life as a political prisoner without a chance at a fair trial. Egotist, sure, but at least we know what we know now. Can you imagine how fucked we’d be if he never leaked them?
And regardless of the source, (site or person quoted), what he’s saying is absolutely true. The NSA is about to be able to gather ALL mass communications and look at them whenever, without a warrant which was the only safeguard before.
I’m legitimately about to throw my tech into a fucking dumpster and get a dumbphone and a smartphone with all hardware removed besides what’s required by Briar.
Most will read this and think I’m being overly paranoid. When I talked about the FVEY (now 14EYES) surveillance dragnet before the Snowdon leaks, everyone thought the same.
Image
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Thanks for the info. A couple big assumptions in there without backing, but I think I understand why you’re making them.
An uncomfortable perspective I’ve developed over the past few years is that some of these privacy sacrifices might allow the US government to more effectively counter malicious efforts from governments like the CCP and Kremlin who have no such restrictions. That said, I have no doubt they’ll also be abused.