I think Snowden has always been a Russian asset, but he is sometimes correct.
@amerika upon what basis? taleb just asserts it as if fact, although I admit it's a reasonable suspicion to have
Based on his profile. Instead of escalating up the chain of command, he engineered as destructive a leak as he could. This is a public optics move.
@amerika isn't it precisely a public optics move that's required
No, I do not think so. What is required, in a bureaucratic system, is formulating concrete objections in written communications to the hierarchy above.
@amerika it's not the bureaucratic system that's of concern but the broader democratic society(ies) that are impacted
Not relevant. Work within the system while you can and you have clean hands.
Does Snowden have clean hands?
@amerika we can go around in circles on this all day, i wouldn't trust the right thing to have been done and Snowden was in a better position than most to understand how they operated
maximum public exposure as fast and hard as possible appears to be the pragmatic solution
anything else is pretty naive imo
@amerika citizen surveillance was a feature, not a bug
@skells
Depends on what your goal is.
My goal would be to make the problem so visible to the organization that it had to address it.