"Why only 1% of the Snowden Archive will ever be published"
*Why only 1% of the Snowden Archive will ever be published * /Speaking to Computer Weekly after we published new revelations from the Snowden archive, the Guardian’s Pulitzer Prize winner, Ewen MacAskill, explains why more of the Snowden trove is unlikely to see the light of day/ By Stefania Maurizi Published: 11 Oct 2023 10:30 Some 10 years after he flew to Hong Kong to meet Edward Snowden with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, The Guardian’s Pulitzer Prize winner, Ewen MacAskill, talks to Computer Weekly about the Snowden files. MacAskill was speaking after Computer Weekly revealed the first new facts to emerge from the Snowden files since the archive first made headlines in 2013. The three new revelations have surfaced for the first time only thanks to a highly technical publication: a doctoral thesis authored by US investigative journalist and postdoctoral researcher Jacob Appelbaum, as part of his degree in applied cryptography from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their publication by Computer Weekly has revived the debate as to why the entire Snowden archive has never been published, considering that even after a decade the three revelations remain indisputably in the public interest, and it is reasonable to assume there are many others like them. MacAskill, who shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras for their journalistic work on the Snowden files, retired from The Guardian in 2018. He told Computer Weekly that: * As far as he knows, a copy of the documents is still locked in the New York Times office. Although the files are in the New York Times office, The Guardian retains responsibility for them. * As to why the New York Times has not published them in a decade, MacAskill maintains “this is a complicated issue”. “There is, at the very least, a case to be made for keeping them for future generations of historians,” he said. * Why was only 1% of the Snowden archive published by the journalists who had full access to it? Ewen MacAskill replied: “The main reason for only a small percentage – though, given the mass of documents, 1% is still a lot – was diminishing interest.” The Snowden archive allows exposing and documenting the rise of the mass-surveillance state, a serious threat to democracy. Have the journalists and media with access to the full archive done everything they can to expose this threat? That is the crux of the matter, because even in a democracy bad people can be elected who could use such unprecedented Orwellian control to crush any opposition. Legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg said: “As Snowden has put it, we’re a ‘turnkey tyranny’: in other words, turn a switch, and we could be a total police state.” [...] continua qui: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366554957/Why-only-1-of-the-Snowden-Arch...
Buongiorno, andate a chiedere alla intelligence dei *cattivi* se non hanno almeno il 50% dei file non pubblicati :-O Quello non è materiale per giornalisti, è materiale per /archeologi/. “The main reason for only a small percentage [...] was diminishing interest.” mavaff... "J.C. DE MARTIN" <juancarlos.demartin@polito.it> writes:
*Why only 1% of the Snowden Archive will ever be published * /Speaking to Computer Weekly after we published new revelations from the Snowden archive, the Guardian’s Pulitzer Prize winner, Ewen MacAskill, explains why more of the Snowden trove is unlikely to see the light of day/
By Stefania Maurizi, Published: 11 Oct 2023 10:30
[...] --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- “The bottom line is that Snowden is facing charges under the Espionage Act. If he was ever to return to the US and face trial, the documents could be used against him. All journalists have a duty to protect source material. How best to do that? How long would The New York Times be willing to store them? Where else could they be stored? Should the documents be destroyed?” --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Ecco appunto, è inutile che ci girano (giriamo?) in giro, è ovvio il motivo per il quale pochissimo del materiale è stato pubblicato, si chiama "Effetto Julian Assange & Co." ...non appena la soglia di pericolo di essere sottoposti a simili trattamenti scenderà sollo il livello "normale", ne vedremo delle belle.
continua qui: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366554957/Why-only-1-of-the-Snowden-Arch...
É la seconda parte di questo articolo: «New revelations from the Snowden archive surface» /A decade after Snowden exposed NSA’s mass surveillance in cooperation with the British GCHQ, only about 1% of the documents have been published – but three major facts can finally be revealed thanks to a doctoral thesis in applied cryptography by Jacob Appelbaum/ By Stefania Maurizi, Published: 19 Sep 2023 21:58 https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366552520/New-revelations-from-the-Snowd... Toh: Jacob Applebaum, il molestatore sessuale seriale [1]!... deve essere una malattia trasmissibile dei "top manager" di Wikileaks e dintorni... oppure "Gomblotto" come piace dire al FAT CHECKER quadratico medio!?! Poi dopo un periodo *quasi* sottotraccia, salta fuori bello bello con la sua tesi di dottorato «Communication in a world of pervasive surveillance - Sources and methods: Counter-strategies against pervasive surveillance architecture» [2] con avisors Tanja Lange, D.J. Bernstein [3] L'articolo racconta che nella tesi Applebaum fa tre nuove rilelazioni, una delle quali non è per nulla nuova quindi chissenefrega: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- 1. The NSA listed Cavium, an American semiconductor company marketing Central Processing Units (CPUs) – the main processor in a computer which runs the operating system and applications – as a successful example of a “SIGINT-enabled” CPU supplier. Cavium, now owned by Marvell, said it does not implement back doors for any government. 2. The NSA compromised lawful Russian interception infrastructure, SORM. The NSA archive contains slides showing two Russian officers wearing jackets with a slogan written in Cyrillic: “You talk, we listen.” The NSA and/or GCHQ has also compromised Key European LI [lawful interception] systems. [...] “The NSA’s successful cryptographic enabling is by definition the introduction of intentional security vulnerabilities that they are then able to exploit, and they do exploit them often in an automated fashion to spy,” he said. “One such method is sabotaging a secure random generator.” [...] Will the 99% of the Snowden archive ever be published? How many important revelations like these do the unpublished documents still contain? It is impossible to say so long as the archive remains unpublished. It is also unclear how many copies of the full archive remain available and who has access to them. [...] it was a terrible day when The Guardian allowed GCHQ to destroy the copy of the archive in the UK. [...] “A copy of the Snowden documents remains locked in an office at The Times, as far as I know.” [...] We asked The Intercept whether the publication is still in possession of the Snowden file. A spokesperson replied: “The Intercept does not discuss confidential news-gathering materials.” --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- La rivelazione 2. non è altro che la conferma che ECHELON è vivo e vegeto e ha solo cambiato nome. La 1. è la conferma che le backdoors della _crittografia_ *sono* implementate anche nei microprocessori, e questo è probabilmente uno dei motivi per il quale il 99% degli Snowden files sono gelosamente mantenuti segreti... come i segreti di pulcinella. Security by obscurity è una boiata, lo sanno tutti... ma sono talmente OLTRE la disperazione che adesso non possono fare altro che /disperatamente/ tentare di mantenere segrete le backdoors nella speranza che non siano sfruttate dai *cattivi*. Lo dico in un'altro modo, così forse si capisce meglio: secondo voi quanto ci metteranno i *cattivi* a compromettere i sistemi chiave dei *buoni*? Saluti, 380° [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum#Allegations_of_sexual_miscondu... [2] https://pure.tue.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/197416841/20220325_Appelbaum_hf.pd... 355 pagine in PDF A4 [3] sì, quello di "Bernstein v. United States" del 1995 sulla costituzionalità delle norme USA in merito alla crittografia, caso permanentemente "on hold" https://cr.yp.to/export/2003/10.15-bernstein.txt ...perché gli USA sono uno stato di diritto "sulla parola". P.S.: e dire che per un breve periodo durante i miei studi in materia ho temuto, anche grazie all'insopportabile pressione ambientale, di essere affetto da complottismo :-D -- 380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego) «Noi, incompetenti come siamo, non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché» Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.
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