I was on the fence before. Now I’m sure Snowden is the good guy.
Yep. I stated that I’d hold my peace until I could find out exactly what it was that Snowden revealed that was genuinely damaging. So far, nada. And the “well, it was horrible but we can’t tell you what it was because it’s classified” argument stinks like a three-day-dead fish. If he revealed it and it’s damaging, there isn’t much use to keep it classified, is there?
Snowden, the man behind explosive leaks of information on the US government’s Prism programme that collected phone and web data from its citizens, has pledged to stay in Hong Kong to fight any attempts by his government to have him extradited.
The detailed records - which cannot be independently verified - show specific dates and the IP addresses of computers in Hong Kong and on the mainland hacked by the National Security Agency over a four-year period.
They also include information indicating whether an attack on a computer was ongoing or had been completed, along with an amount of additional operational information.
The small sample data suggests secret and illegal NSA attacks on Hong Kong computers had a success rate of more than 75 per cent, according to the documents. The information only pertains to attacks on civilian computers with no reference to Chinese military operations, Snowden said.
IMHO, this is a criminal exposure of classified techniques.
Considering both China and the US have been constructing Zettabyte Data Centers, they both are operating along similar lines and haven for a decade.