• theodewere@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    must be nice not having to understand things

    “We will likely never know the full extent of the damage, but I have no doubt it was massive,” Judge Jesse M. Furman said as he announced the sentence.

    Schulte was responsible for “the most damaging disclosures of classified information in American history.”

    he got people killed, and you don’t care

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      9 months ago

      Please add citations where people were killed as a direct result

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        9 months ago

        Realistically, it’s doubtful anybody died directly because of that particular leak.

        Probably the shutting down of the phone reading methods could eventually compromise operations. It probably cost them money and a great deal of time which could totally have an impact on somebody’s life. But that’s how espionage works.

        I kind of get that you have to keep your secrets secret. And there need to be repercussions for leaking secrets. Especially trade secrets like this. If not for the CP stuff I would think 5 or 10 years would have been a more reasonable number.

        But with the hole unapologetic CP thing. I’m not even sure 40 is enough.

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      9 months ago

      When people claim that leaks “get people killed,” they’re referring to when undercover agents are identified while they’re in the field. The only secrets exposed in these leaks are the computer hacking techniques used by the US to spy remotely through compromised devices.

      The so-called Vault 7 leak revealed how the CIA hacked Apple and Android smartphones in overseas spying operations, and efforts to turn internet-connected televisions into listening devices.

      You could maybe say that closing off those surveillance channels prevented the CIA from learning about some attack, but that’s really tenuous. It also assumes that the CIA isn’t constantly developing new zero-day exploits so that they can continue to spy on just about everyone on the planet.

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        9 months ago

        The class of information that Snowden had was substantially more dangerous. He didn’t just walk out of there with Prism secrets.

        There’s a reasonable chance that some of the data Snowden had would have had more dire impacts on remote agents.

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          9 months ago

          Why should he go to trial? It’s not going to be a fair trial, and the people have a right to know that the US government is illegally surveilling them. If he truly did directly kill people as a result of his leak, there would already be preliminary evidence.

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            Right up with you until preliminary evidence.

            If they publicly released that his leak got someone in particular killed, they would be admitting publicly that the person killed was an agent. In most cases they would not want to tip their hand on that for fear of exposing other agents.