Better off..? Snowden damaged and weakened US and allied intelligence, and in the meantime we saw the start of unprecedented cyber attacks...https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1004082232447905792 …
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Huge waste of time, money and energy because of damage control, lowered morale, public trust gone, relationships broken, etc. Snowden isn't responsible for the cyber attacks, but he weakened our defense.
How do "damage control," "lowered morale," "public trust gone," or "relationships broken" weaken any computer code, which is to my way of thinking the only real defense against cyber attacks (other than pulling the plug)?
maybe some people have to write such computer code...?
Not getting it. Do you mean to say that anyone who demoralizes an NSA employee is assisting/abetting/furthering cyber attacks upon the United States?
If that has an impact on a large part of such an agency, yes. Enemies always tried to influence individual employees of secret services too.
I think I understand now. The agencies will determine optimum morale, measure exactly how much demoralization every bad person has contributed and how much each subroutine has been degraded, and apportion blame and punishment proportionally. You're very scientific and rational.
I think a case can be made that he damaged some US/allied intelligence projects (whether you think that is a good or a bad thing is another discussion), but linking it to “unprecedented cyber attacks” is “correlation != causation” to me until I see proof of that.
If you are weakened, that's an opportunity for your enemy to attack. Is it a coincidence that shortly after the start of the Snowden revelations, we saw a burst of other highly damaging leaks?
But are/were those leaks part of “cyber attacks”? And was it just emboldened enemies, or also ideologically strengthened insiders? Anyway, my main issue is with linking Snowden to increased cyber attacks, if only because attacks seem to have “naturally” increased from all sides.
Even with "naturally" increassing attacks, I don't think it's very smart to weaken your own cyber defense agency...
When America gets a cyber defense agency, that will be a relevant point. To the extent we have one, it's not NSA. We've gone in the opposite direction, however.
which direction?
We've eliminated more and more of our defensive agencies.
Like for example?
Can’t remember if it was something I read or a documentary but didn’t Snowden steal over 1,000 sensitive documents unrelated to the surveillance program?Intelligence officials have stated Snowden did immense damage to our national security & we still haven’t recovered.
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