Snowden at SXSW: The NSA set fire to the future of the Internet

[MikeWB]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57620111-83/snowden-at-sxsw-the-nsa-set-fire-to-the-future-of-the-internet/

Edward Snowden appearing live via Google Hangouts video at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas, in his first extended public comments since leaking NSA documents last year.

(Credit: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)
Edward Snowden accused the National Security Agency and the US government today of "setting fire to the future of the Internet."

In a high-profile video appearance at the South by Southwest festival -- his video was beamed over Google Hangout from Russia to Austin, Texas, apparently jokingly through "seven proxies" -- Snowden touched on myriad topics, ranging from privacy to the ramifications of government spying, as he answered questions from the Internet at large via Twitter.

"The NSA...they're setting fire to the future of the Internet. And the people in this room, you guys are the firefighters. We need you to help us fix this," Snowden said.

Moderator Ben Wizner, the director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, said that Snowden's actions have led to a "reinvigorated" interest in government oversight.

"Sometimes it needs serious sweeping, and Ed Snowden's been the broom," Wizner said.

One of the first questions that Wizner asked Snowden was why he was addressing the technorati at South by Southwest instead of the policy wonks in Washington, D.C.

"The tech community are the ones who could help fix this situation, more than people in Washington," Snowden said. "There's a tech response needed. It's the makers, thinkers, and the dev community who can help make sure we're safe."

Christopher Soghoian, a privacy advocate and principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union, was onstage with Wizner in Austin. He agreed with Snowden that the tech community and technology companies have improved their use of encryption, which often have been lackadaisical about implementing it.

"We need to lock things down and make things secure out of the box. Developers will have to think differently," he said.

Snowden said that the value of encryption can't be understated, and claimed that the US government remains unsure of which documents he leaked.

"They have no idea what documents were provided to journalists, because encryption works," he said. "We need to think about it not as an arcane dark art, but a protection against the dark arts."

The trio discussed the possibility of the NSA breaking encryption, but Snowden said he doesn't think that's likely. A bigger threat to encryption than government breaking encryption, Snowden said, is simply stealing the encryption keys.

"I think encryption will be sustained unless we make massive leaps in understanding math and physics," he said.

Soghoian said that the cryptographic community felt it had been lied to, in part because of a lack of motivation to toughen encryption.

Soghoian had harsh words for a broad swath of technology firms, including Google for data collection via Android and Chrome, Facebook for data collection and privacy violations, Apple for making its address book insecure, Yahoo for not implementing encryption sooner, and Mozilla for not making Firefox secure enough.

"The irony that we are using Google Hangouts to talk to Snowden is not being lost on me," he said, and he also noted the tech companies' response to the documents Snowden leaked.

"Unfortunately it took the largest whistle-blower in history to get these companies to prioritize their customer's privacy," Soghoian said.

A major difference between corporate data collection and government spying, Soghoian and Snowden agreed, is that you can't challenge government spying in court.

"If data is being clandestinely acquired and the public or courts have no way of reviewing it, that's a problem," Snowden said.


Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kansas), who demanded that the SXSW organizers cancel Snowden's talk.
(Credit: pompeo.house.gov)
Another problem with the US government spying on its citizens was that it made it difficult to stop actual terrorist threats.

"Tamerlan Tsarnaev was known by the Russians. If we'd focused on traditional intelligence, not mass surveillance, we might've stopped him," Snowden said of the suspected mastermind behind last year's Boston Marathon bombings, who was later killed in a shootout with the Boston police.

"The goal here isn't to blind the NSA. The goal here is to make it so that they cannot spy on innocent people because they can," Soghoian added.

Wizner let Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web founder, ask Snowden the first audience question. He thanked Snowden and said that what Snowden has done is profoundly in the public interest. He also asked what should be done to improve the government surveillance practices.

Snowden replied that the problem was not with the system, but its implementation.

"We have an oversight model that could work. The problem is when the overseers in Congress, NSA, who don't want to do oversight."

The main issue, he said, is "accountability."

"We can't have people like [Director of National Intelligence James] Clapper lying to Congress."

Snowden closed by reiterating his intention by going to Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras with the NSA documents.

"When I came public it wasn't to single-handedly change the government. I wanted to inform the public so they could make their own decision," he said.

"Regardless of what happens to me, this is something we had a right to. I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution and I saw that the Constitution was being violated on a massive scale," he said.

[Christopher Marlowe]

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FAKE AND FAKER
Julian Assange (Wikileaks) and Edward Snowden are NWO con-men!

It was with a mix of concern and amusement that The Anti New York Times viewed the blind public acceptance of, first, the "WikiLeaks" fraud, and now, the Ed Snowden scam. Even more troubling was the hasty eagerness with which so many of our constitutionalist, libertarian, and "conspiracy theorist" brethren fell for the twin 'whistleblower" scams.

The Anti New York Times is pleased to present "Fake & Faker", an important expose of two very dangerous scams being run by the New World Order Gang.

BEFORE WE BEGIN, LET US ESTABLISH 3 UNDENIABLE, IRON TRUTHS REGARDING THE MSM (Mainstream Media)

IRON TRUTH # 1

The mission of the Global MSM is to steer the peoples' thoughts and opinions in the direction desired by the ruling class.

IRON TRUTH # 2

The MSM would NEVER hype a story, or an individual, that poses a true threat to the ruling class which it serves. Remember the silent treatment given to Ron Paul?

IRON TRUTH # 3

When all of the MSM start pushing/hyping the same given narrative, of any given issue, all at the same time, understand that the ruling class is selling you something!

APRIL 2010 / WIKILEAKS BURSTS ONTO THE WORLD STAGE

In April 2010, Julian Assange's WikiLeaks publishes graphic gunsight footage from a 3 year old Baghdad airstrike in which Iraqi journalists were murdered by a U.S. helicopter. Though these types of incidents were already well known, the MSM treats the video as if it is the breaking story of the century!

The release of a video, showing Iraqis being murdered, gave WikiLeaks credibility as a whistle-blowing operation.

  2010 - 2011 / WIKILEAKS RELEASES MORE DOCUMENTS

A good con-man must win the people's confidence before he makes his sting. By exposing a certain amount of wasteful military spending and U.S. brutality (limited hangout), Assange's WikiLeaks wins the trust of many liberty loving, justice seeking Americans, as well as Europeans and Arabs. He is also condemned by certain U.S. politicians & journalists. This condemnation (some of it feigned, some of it genuine) is known in intelligence circles as "sheep-dipping", and also serves to build his credibility.

The MSM makes an instant international super-star of the shady Austrailian Assange!

  LATE 2010 - 2011 / WIKILEAKS SWITCHES GEARS!

After gaining the world's trust with his controlled attacks against the U.S. government, Assange, a CIA (and/or Mossad) operative, aims his WikiLeaks whistle-blowing weapon at the true intended targets. Leaked documents no longer embarass America. But very damaging information about corruption within the governments of Tunisia, Egypt,  and Yemen are "leaked" to "assets" within the Arab press.

    GOOGLE: WIKILEAKS YEMEN

    GOOGLE: WIKILEAKS EGYPT

    GOOGLE: WIKILEAKS TUNISIA

Leaks aimed at embarassing Syria and Algeria are also released.

GOOGLE: WIKILEAKS SYRIA

GOOGLE: WIKILEAKS ALGERIA

Wasn't the original mission of WikiLeaks to expose U.S. aggression and oppression in the Middle East? Why did Assange suddenly target certain Arab states?

This con-game is a classic "bait & switch" scheme.

2011 / "ARAB SPRING" TOPPLES TUNISIA, EGYPT, YEMEN & LIBYA - WAR ALSO BREAKS OUT IN SYRIA - WIKILEAKS CLAIMS CREDIT!

What a coincidence! All of the governments targeted by Assange's WikiLeaks become victims of the "Arab Spring".

The MSM Fairy Tale tells us that the "Arab Spring" was a "spontaneous" uprising of the people, that started in Tunisia, and later spread to other nations. The reality is that the Globalist-Zionist Axis had targeted certain government for regime change. Expansionist Israel benefits from weakened Arab states in turmoil. The Globalists also seek to crush any state that either dares to assert some degree of independence, or that gets to chummy with Russia and/or China. The NWO Gang's formula for conducting "regime change" within the targeted states is as follows:

STEP 1:  Assange's WikiLeaks feeds very embarassing leaks to "assets" within the Arab press.
STEP 2:  The targeted regime suddenly becomes very unpopular.
STEP 3:  Internal subversives (provacateurs) kick off the "spontaneous demonstrations".
STEP 4:  Ordinary citizens swell the ranks of the protestors.
STEP 5:  Paid traitors within the government and military force the government to resign.
          5a: (In Libya & Syria, paid terrorist mercenaries ("rebels") fight against the loyal military.)
STEP 6:  The MSM then claims that "people power" has triumphed over tyranny.
   
Phony Arab Spring! TIME named "The Protester" as 2011 "Person of the Year".

Business Insider: Julian Assange Says He Planned Arab Spring

The Guardian (UK): Amnesty International hails WikiLeaks and Guardian as Arab spring 'catalysts'  [Note: Amnesty International is another controlled JWO fake]

(The Guardian is the same newspaper now working with "whistle-blower" Edward Snowden!)

WIKILEAKS TARGETS RUSSIA'S PUTIN, AND HIS CLOSE PERSONAL FRIEND,  BERLUSCONI OF ITALY

The Globo-Zionist Axis hates Putin of Russia. Not only is mighty Russia refusing to hand over its sovereignty to the NWO Gang, but Putin is blocking the much anticipated war against Syria and Iran. So it comes as no surprise that WikiLeaks has also leaked on Putin, and his close personal friend, Silvio Berluconi of Italy.

Putin remains as strong as ever, but Berlusconi was removed from office after Wikileaks ruined him.

GOOGLE: WIKILEAKS PUTIN

GOOGLE" WIKILEAKS BERLUSCONI
     
With the loss of his vacation buddy Berlusconi (thanks to WikiLeaks), Putin lost his only true friend in Western Europe.

So, there it is.

The "heroic" whistle-blower / leaker Julian Assange, with the help of the MSM, suckers in the entire world with his "anti-American / anti-war" leaks. He then uses this "street-cred" to attack the rivals of the  U.S. / Israel / NATO Axis of Evil, setting the Middle East on fire in the process. Wikileaks represents the most brilliant psy-op since the 9/11 attacks (brought to you by the same planners!)

For its audacity, ingenuity, and destructive power, it will be hard to top Julian Assange. Who can ever be a bigger FAKE than Assange?........

.....................Enter, Mr. Edward Snowden.

SUMMER 2013 / MSM DROPS THE EDWARD SNOWDEN HYPE-BOMB UPON THE WORLD!

In a sudden media blitz roll out, eerily similar to that of Julian Assange, a Mr. Edward Snowden is introduced to the world as another "heroic" whistle-blower. The vehicle which Snowden uses to expose government wrong doing is a homosexual, socialist, lawyer-turned-journalist named Glen Greenwald of The Guardian Newspaper (UK) - the same newspaper that PROUDLY boasts of its role in bringing about the "Arab Spring"! (here)

Exactly as was the case with Assange, Snowden's revelations of NSA spying upon the public amount to all hype and no substance. It is already well known that the NSA can listen to phone calls and read E-mails!

Exactly as was the case with Assange, Snowden becomes a "fugitive". No explanation is given as to how he managed to escape, or how a fugitive was able to get on a plane. Snowden flees to CIA-infested Hong Kong where his "cause" is supported by a bizarre instant flash-mob equipped with professionally made bi-lingual banners and picket signs!

Exactly as was the case with Assange, Snowden becomes an international star.

Exactly as was the case with Assange, Snowden (and Greenwald) are cleverly, and theatrically condemned (sheep-dipped) by certain hated Americans (Diane Feinstein, Donald Trump, George Bush I (an ex CIA Director))

SNOWDEN, HOLED UP IN MOSCOW AIRPORT, IS IN CONTACT WITH JULIAN ASSANGE!

If Assange himself is a fugitive, how does he manage to stay in the spotlight? How did Snowden come in contact with him? We read in the July 6 USA Today:

"Assange, who once published thousands of illegally obtained U.S. government diplomatic communications on his website, acknowledged Monday that he is coordinating efforts to help National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden evade U.S. justice." (full article here)

SAY WHAT???!!!

Is the scrawny, weirdo Julian Assange some sort of international King-Pin that he can "coordinate efforts" - across continents - to help a fugitive, while he himself is a fugitive? We have already established that Assange is a fake. The fact that Snowden is hooked up with him pretty much tells us all we need to know about him as well.......But there is more!

FAKE ABC News asks FAKE Julian Assange about FAKE Ed Snowden!

THE GUARDIAN'S GLEN GREENWALD REVEALS SNOWDEN'S PLAN!

Excerpt from the Daily Beast:

"As the U.S. government presses Moscow to extradite former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, America's most wanted leaker has a plan B. The former NSA systems administrator has already given encoded files containing an archive of the secrets he lifted from his old employer to several people."

Exactly like Assange, Snowden has files to release. It is evident that these files contain damaging information. Who is the target this time? Foreign governments? American officials? How does an government contractor just walk out with so many files? Why would this young man destroy his life, defying the Feds and condemning himself to fugitive status - just to tell us what we already knew? Oh, that's right....he is a "hero" and a "patriot".

Can you smell the Hollywood BULLSHIT?

What is the game this time? Wikileaks 2? Or is the goal to create "civilian oversight" (i.e. direct CIA control) over the miltary-run NSA?

It's too early in the game to know for sure what the Snowden trick is all about. But understand this, it is a dirty trick of some sort!

THE SHADY BRUCE FEIN HOOKS UP WITH SNOWDEN'S "FATHER"

Lon Snowden, the man purporting to be Ed Snowden's father, has teamed up with DC Insider-Lawyer Bruce Fein to write an "open letter" to Ed Snowden. The letter (published in Glen Greenwald's sleazy Guardian) smacks of contrived drama and self righteous corniness. Fein & Snowden invoke the names of Founding American patriots Thomas Paine and Paul Revere, as well as "places of sacrifice" such as Valley Forge, Cemetery Ridge, and Omaha Beach. (here)

The "libertarian" Bruce Fein is a speaking-tour pal of the socialist Greenwald, and was suspected by an FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds (a real whistle-blower that the MSM ignores!) of being an infiltrator embedded within the 2012 Ron Paul campaign.
FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds made stunning revelations about 9/11 foreknowledge and the foreign Blackmailing of a US Congresswoman. Yet she (and other genuine whistleblowers like her) were never media-hyped like Assange & Snowden!

Who is Bruce Fein?

Bruce Fein has worked for  warmongering neo-conservative/Zionist think tanks such as The Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute. As a paid scholar at The Turkish Coalition of America, Fein denies that the post World War I Armenian Genocide was deliberately engineered by secular & Zionist elements within the Turkish regime (Young Turks). As a paid apologist for both Zionism and the Turkish state, Fein sells the DISGUSTING AND BIGOTED LIE that Armenian deaths were caused by disease, famine, and "murders by Muslims." The fact that a  well connected Muslim-Hater would be working with the Snowdens is very suspicious!

STAY TUNED FOR FUTURE UPDATES  TO: FAKE & FAKER!

[LordLindsey]

Mr. Marlowe, I agree with everything presented.

Lindsey