What do you think about the Snowden movie?
good, quick production
Do you support Edward Snowden?
I think he went too far when he told China of Americas spying on them. Its one thing to betray a corrupt organization but its another to raise hostilities. Whats your take. I personally think the NSA is fine. How much has it affected your life? Probably not at all. All we need is another 9/11 and people will be moaning about lack security. Explain your point of view please.
Edward Snowden: Hero or traitor?
He's a traitor because he exposed information that could help prevent terrorist attacks and also because of these programs that we have their have been certain terrorist attacks that have been prevented also because of him exposing this information al quada has changed their strategies of communication that could be hard for us to track and could cause another attack and I heard that if we had these programs before 9/11 the attack on September 11 could have been prevented and edward snowden didn't just tell us about the classified information he has told other countries about it such as china and Russia also someone who doesent work for NSA or CIA or another agency could not provide accurate information because of it being top secret
Edward Snowden, hero or traitor?
Snowden has done almost irreparable harm to this nation's safety and security...he is a stone-cold 100% TRAITOR who is guilty of TREASON. Consider this, for example: On November 16, 2006 we learned that China has installed a ground station for intercepting signals transmitted through the U.S. and Russian communication satellite systems. The Chinese government spent $big bucks$ (billions) for this ground station in order to decode our previously encrypted (protected) data. There are more than 1200 satellites in orbit from the European Space Agency and the following nations: United States, France, Japan, China, United Kingdom, India, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and South Korea, and each one of these satellites is capable of eavesdropping on anyone anytime anywhere. But unauthorized listening-in by other nations is possible because the military and civilian systems radiate signals in all directions and these signals can be picked up by any ground station over nearly one-third of the Earth's surface from which the satellite can be seen. Prior to Snowden's TREASON, the U.S. had countermeasures set up to block or otherwise follow and foil cyber-spying---the very countermeasures that Snowden took it upon his undereducated arrogant criminal self to spew to the world. He deserves the death penalty, especially because he betrayed his country and obliterated its intervention strategies during a time when the nation is AT WAR on foreign soil. If a professional football coach gave away all team defense and offense strategies to the opposing teams, would that coach's team ever be able to win? The databank of phone numbers and e-mail accounts is NOT "spying"---it is simply organizing available data that makes use of the public airwaves. The sheer volume of data would maintain anonymity, but this is nothing new. The FBI has always (in my 68 years) been able to "red flag" phone numbers if callers used triggering "buzz" words like "bomb" or "assassination" and these red-flagged numbers would then be channeled into a smaller databank for closer scrutiny. The electronic signals is what is sought---not the private conversations.
Why did Edward Snowden choose Hong Kong as his safe harbor?
Hong Kong offers a number of useful features for spies on the run:High number of tourists and expats: no matter what you look like, it’s easy to be ignored (assuming you hang around the right areas and wear the right clothes). Nobody will be suspicious if you tell them you are just going there for a shopping weekend.Politically ambiguous situation: Hong Kong is caught in a kind of limbo between the former benevolent British dictatorship and awkward relations with mainland China, but it is also too economically important for anyone to push too hard to change the status quo. This means that it has a kind of weird freedom to let things slide from time to time (such as fleeing spies).Strategic geographic location: Americans trying to get you? In Hong Kong, you’re easily across the border into mainland China. Not sure if you want to be in China? Just walk in to an embassy or give yourself up to the police. Or go to the airport and fly direct to almost anywhere else on Earth.Extremely high population density (with modern living standards): Crowds and buildings everywhere make it relatively easy to hide.Not (really) a police state: As long as you don’t cause trouble, nobody really cares much what you do. This helps with hiding, but it also means that things like organized crime and government-sponsored “relocations” occur right under the noses of the police.Perhaps Snowden was a fan of Jean-Claude Van Damme movies in his youth, such as Bloodsport, in which the Muscles from Brussels ventures into the now-demolished Walled City on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong. The Walled City was itself an anomaly within an anomaly - a part of British-controlled Hong Kong which still belonged to China, but was too small to be effectively governed.Edit 2018–09–04: It turns out that the ambiguous situation of Hong Kong is supported by real data: Why are foreign fugitives seeking shelter in Hong Kong and Macau?
Edward Snowden and NSA leaks?
Snowden has done almost irreparable harm to this nation's safety and security...he is a stone-cold 100% TRAITOR who is guilty of TREASON. Consider this, for example: On November 16, 2006 we learned that China has installed a ground station for intercepting signals transmitted through the U.S. and Russian communication satellite systems. The Chinese government spent $big bucks$ (billions) for this ground station in order to decode our previously encrypted (protected) data. There are more than 1200 satellites in orbit from the European Space Agency and the following nations: United States, France, Japan, China, United Kingdom, India, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and South Korea, and each one of these satellites is capable of eavesdropping on anyone anytime anywhere. But unauthorized listening-in by other nations is possible because the military and civilian systems radiate signals in all directions and these signals can be picked up by any ground station over nearly one-third of the Earth's surface from which the satellite can be seen. Prior to Snowden's TREASON, the U.S. had countermeasures set up to block or otherwise follow and foil cyber-spying---the very countermeasures that Snowden took it upon his undereducated arrogant criminal self to spew to the world. He deserves the death penalty, especially because he betrayed his country and obliterated its intervention strategies during a time when the nation is AT WAR on foreign soil. If a professional football coach gave away all team defense and offense strategies to the opposing teams, would that coach's team ever be able to win? The databank of phone numbers and e-mail accounts is NOT "spying"---it is simply organizing available data that makes use of the public airwaves. The sheer volume of data would maintain anonymity, but this is nothing new. The FBI has always (in my 68 years) been able to "red flag" phone numbers if callers used triggering "buzz" words like "bomb" or "assassination" and these red-flagged numbers would then be channeled into a smaller databank for closer scrutiny. The electronic signals is what is sought---not the private conversations.
What exactly did Snowden reveal?
Absolutely nothing we wouldn't have already known for the last 6+ years if we had been paying attention. Or if anybody had cared before he made a stink. Mostly he revealed that he is a megalomaniac who can't stand not being the center of attention. He and the "journalist" that broke the story.