Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @privacyint: Six years after the @Snowden revelations, two governments describe their mass surveillance programmes - but who even notice… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @McD_Patrice: Good question! How many times did we hear -- re @Snowden and others -- "it is not declassified just because it is publish… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @4TheRefugees: What if Hong Kong becomes another Tiananmen Square? Canada should accept pro-democracy refugees writes Alex Neve of @amne… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @PanMacIndia: Edward @Snowden's memoir, Permanent Record, is coming out next month. Have you pre-ordered your copy yet? https://t.co/d… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @torproject: We know the bugs are coming. We just don't know when. Throughout the month of August, every donation to Tor will be earma… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @torproject: .@Snowden is right. That's why we're doing our best to make sure there is a "safe enough" option out there. By donating t… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

I'm definitely fallible, but the thread you're responding to came about from my responding to someone who replied to a tweet by me. I haven't been very active online this year because I was trying to finish writing my first book (https://t.co/JS1AJ6QlXg), and also because 2019. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@MikeInVoid @toholdaquill @NSAGov @Tails_live I use Qubes and a Whonix gateway literally everyday, but you can't simply throw Qubes at a non-technical journalist and have them not get you arrested. Qubes is intended for people who understand how a network operates and what a virtual machine is. Most journalists don't. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Thread on 2013, Tor, and opsec. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Tor thread. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@toholdaquill @NSAGov @Tails_live The technology changes, but the principles are always the same. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@toholdaquill @NSAGov @Tails_live If I were going to reprise my work in 2013 in a 2019 environment, I'd almost certainly still use Tor and Tails via different hacked WiFi APs for each communication. Even if traffic analysis reveals the origin of your communication, it doesn't need to lead back to you. Layers! — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@toholdaquill @NSAGov @Tails_live If you look at the way post-2013 whistleblowers have been caught, it is clear the absolute most important thing you can do to maintain your anonymity is reduce the number of places in your operational activity where you can make mistakes. Tor and Tails still do precisely that. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@toholdaquill @NSAGov @Tails_live The primary threat facing someone trying to stay anonymous on the internet today is their own bad opsec, and that is precisely the same as it was in 2013. Tails—and Tor—reduced the number of ways anyone on my team could make dangerous mistakes, and so were crucial protections. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@toholdaquill @NSAGov @Tails_live One day, they may no longer be safe enough. We don't know when that is until someone proves it: maybe it's today, maybe it's never. But none of the most common kinds of conspiracy-minded FUD we see raised against Tor today have been backed by anything more than air. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@toholdaquill @NSAGov @Tails_live All we know today is that at a certain point in time, old standbys like Tor, OTR, and GPG were "safe enough" for the given threat model, because they successfully protected the communications they needed to in the manner they were required to. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@toholdaquill @NSAGov @Tails_live "Far better" doesn't imply "secure against TLA," it just means "more safe." "More safe," in isolation, often means "not safe enough," which is why we layer in protection for defense in depth. Even way back in prehistoric 2013, Tor was simply the outermost layer. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@toholdaquill @NSAGov @Tails_live Against a TLA, Tor (when used with particular care for what is being transmitted, and how, so as to limit the impact of bad exits and traffic analysis) was and is, in my opinion, far better protection than typical alternatives like static VPN tunnels. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@toholdaquill @NSAGov @Tails_live I wouldn't expect any system to be totally secure, much less remain secure forever in the face of adversary advances, but that's not the claim. Security is process of choosing between "less safe" and "more safe;" and continuing to fork toward safety until you reach "safe enough." — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

In 2013, when a small team of journalists and I went head to head against @NSAGov to reveal the secret system of global mass surveillance, we used @Tails_Live to communicate—to reduce the risk of basic but deadly mistakes. The NSA only learned of our plan when it hit the news. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @trevortimm: This is arguably the most important story in the world right now. Read this thread. https://t.co/ow2j9Kyodj — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @1Br0wn: It’s extremely thoughtful of the Chinese government to provide such a vivid demonstration in Hong Kong of the risks to human ri… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @internetfreedom: Two years ago the Supreme Court of India reaffirmed the fundamental right to privacy, to mark this day, reflect and ch… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

We can possess nothing—neither thing nor thought—absent a border between self and State. Each individual right is derived from this line, which we call privacy. Two years ago today, India's Supreme Court affirmed the Right to Privacy. @internetfreedom @MozillaIN #PrivacySupreme — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @xor: @Snowden and the Indiebound link, for people who want to pre-order or buy Permanent Record from their local independent bookstore… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

For those of you who asked for the direct Amazon link: https://t.co/JS1AJ6QlXg — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @henryfarrell: 1. https://t.co/JkPP1VNId9 There is an interesting story about regulations, trust and power behind this @snowden tweet, w… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @Ammir: AWS + Digital Ocean + Gate hub+ Google cloud + ... = Almost the entire internet blocked Iranian because of sanctions. This is th… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @mrphs: I’d like to kindly remind everyone services like @awscloud are exempted from US sanctions according to General License D-1 issue… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

You might not know it, but Amazon runs basically half the internet on their cloud platform. Now they're cutting off the lifeline of Iran's liberal opposition in a misguided attempt to please—far beyond what the law requires—one of Amazon's biggest customers: the US Government. — PolitiTweet.org