Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Roskomnadzor should immediately reverse this dangerous and self-defeating decision. Just as when they tried (and failed) to block Telegram, efforts to block @TorProject won't stop criminals, but it will absolutely hurt ordinary people who depend on it for privacy. This is wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Roskomnadzor (Russia's censorship bureau) is attempting to block one of the most important rights-respecting networks in the world without issuing so much as a press release. This is like banning the entire cell phone network because a drug dealer used it—without explanation. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @torproject: URGENT: Starting Dec. 1st, Russian ISPs have started blocking access to Tor. We've also learned that Roskomnadzor, the Russ… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Können Sie es sich vorstellen? Haben sich die Zeiten geändert? — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @skoldehoff: "Ich kann mir #Asyl für Edward @Snowden vorstellen. Er hat als #Whistleblower Transparenz hergestellt", hat mir die neue Ku… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Watch this clip to the very end. It will astonish you. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @torproject: Здравствуйте! Похоже, ваш Интернет-провайдер блокирует Tor. Tor Browser включает инструменты обхода блокировок. О том, как… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@AlecMuffett @GazTheJourno Again, I share your concern and agree that it's reasonable, but I just don't necessarily agree it's insurmountable. Regardless, I think it's all academic anyway. As I stated before, no government is prepared to meaningfully reduce the availability of intrusion software. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@AlecMuffett @GazTheJourno I actually don't think so, re: SENSS etc. The thing about these FOSS vuln-scanning frameworks is they're all throwing ancient, publicly-known exploits, primarily to confirm patch status. Easy to legally differentiate from 0-day SaaS, regardless of packaging. It's a bright line. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@AlecMuffett @GazTheJourno (For some interpretations of "the problem." Some restrictions apply. Void where prohibited.) — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@AlecMuffett @GazTheJourno It's exactly because of the Wassenaar failure that I don't recommend regulation based on form or function, but profit or non-profit. Nobody is operationalizing iOS 0-days into SaaS platforms to save the world. They're doing it to get rich. Remove the profit, remove the problem. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@rpotter_9 With respect, you quite literally know better than this. You know what an export license is. You know who issues them. You know the intelligence relationship with this sector in that country. If you think this is a failure of perspective, I don't think I can help you. Cheers. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@AlecMuffett @GazTheJourno It doesn't really matter, since what the governments are actually doing here is just dividing the industry into pro-FVEY and anti-FVEY (Five Eyes) lists, with the former legitimized and rewarded, with the latter condemned. Expect nothing but the worst from policy figures here. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@AlecMuffett @GazTheJourno It's a prohibition on the *commercial trade.* I share your fears, but I think this is sidestepped by limiting it to commercial activity. Legitimate use here is basically entirely non-commercial: research, full-disclosure, FOSS. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@GazTheJourno The distinction here is of course company v. country. I trust that you don't need examples of the double-standard, regardless of how one feels about this or that flag. My position (https://t.co/9ahiR1MOz4) is that there should be a full international moratorium on the trade. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

I wrote about this just a few months ago: https://t.co/9ahiR1MOz4 — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

If a Russian company was behind this, Russia would be facing double-sanctions by lunchtime. No, triple-sanctions! Oprah would be handing out sanctions to everyone in the audience. Do you think the US will be sanctioning the host nation for this company? https://t.co/SI43lTrsN1 — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

https://t.co/D6CrC7KZ0Q — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

"What you have is a government inside a government, an undemocratic apparatus making all of the decisions beneath a shell of democracy—something that looks like a democracy and is called a democracy, but has almost none of the properties a democracy is defined by." — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @ggreenwald: These (👇) were my core views in 2010 (which is what caused Snowden to choose me). They were my core views in 2015 (when the… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@citizenreader Very difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff on this, even in media, which is why I ask for primary source responses. There have been a couple people with legitimate-looking affiliations so far: check my "liked" tweets to dodge the noise. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @KaiSchulze_: @Snowden 2 weeks to get a good picture from different lab studies, 4 weeks I would say to see whether it has a real advant… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Question for actual-scientist Twitter: how long until we have a reasonable (but tentative) grasp of Omicron's novel characteristics? How many weeks are we talking? — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Omicron sounds like the name of an 80s movie's evil Robot King. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

No matter what complaints the Hong Kong Bar Association might have about Tibbo, there bottom line is that he fought for many, many years to secure the safety of families that the HK government has shown little interest in protecting--and won. https://t.co/NSYBnOQbNK — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

The head of Hong Kong's Department of Justice--if such a department can still be said to exist--appears to have personally intervened to deny representation to the lawyer who aided me there, in a case that seems ever-more-obviously constructed to chase him out of the territory. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @EamonJavers: What an incredibly tragic story, in every possible way: — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

A definitely, totally unrepresentative example: https://t.co/720SYvqzZM — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

A radical sharpening of tone is occurring in economic discussions—with deepening convictions as to the assignation of blame—as the ailing currencies of the prior century succumb at last to diseases born from generations of neglect. This has happened before. It will get worse. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Reporters writing on the Apple-NSO story should understand this lawsuit would not be *possible* without the years-long investigations of @citizenlab, who are close to single-handedly responsible for uncovering the bulk of what we know about the NSO group's darkest deeds. — PolitiTweet.org