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NightWatcher

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11. Question: Why are the Guardian, Greenwald, et al holding on to this information?

Tue Aug 20, 2013, 03:25 PM

Aug 2013

If it's so toxic and it's making their daily life and travels dangerous, why don't they just release it and let the chips fall where they may?

I wouldn't want to be the guy holding any of this stuff that the governments of US and UK want. I don't think it's a bargaining chip that they could use to remain free.

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The GUARDIAN: We destroyed hard drives of leaked NSA files under threat of legal action & closure [View all] 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 OP

so no figured out that they should make more than one copy? madrchsod Aug 2013 #1

"thousands of copies" I saw somewhere 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #2

If they try too hard the bottle will break and everything will spill out. Kablooie Aug 2013 #41

Funny, none of those things in the picture are a hard drive. Rex Aug 2013 #3

Is this really the nit you want to pick? 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #4

Nit to pick no...but if you actually want someone to believe you Rex Aug 2013 #7

I notice you didn't answer my question 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #9

OH yeah it is a gross violation of their rights as journalists! Rex Aug 2013 #12

Thank you. 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #17

Thanks for understanding, it might be a nit to pick Rex Aug 2013 #22

Agreed! LiberalFighter Aug 2013 #19

Valid question, and Rex is right. n/t Aerows Aug 2013 #15

Thanks! I would expect to see this! Rex Aug 2013 #21

That's OLD SCHOOL. No one buys a laptop without an SSD, unless they are morons. n/t TheBlackAdder Aug 2013 #31

Okay smart guy where is the SSD in the picture then? Rex Aug 2013 #38

It's not there, but I'm not obsessing over it. TheBlackAdder Aug 2013 #58

As someone consistantly opposing the actions of government spying quakerboy Aug 2013 #36

Well, it's a free country. Pick away... 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #40

It all depends on who you pick away at quakerboy Aug 2013 #43

Yes, I guess that about sums it up 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #44

^This^! nt chowder66 Aug 2013 #5

That's just pathetic...I wouldn't know that, but somebody bothered to take a victory photo? n/t libdem4life Aug 2013 #8

Hey I am all for them destroying their HDDs if that is what they want to do. Rex Aug 2013 #10

If this is the best they got...we peons may have a fighting chance afterall. libdem4life Aug 2013 #14

You noticed it too Aerows Aug 2013 #16

Yeah it looks like they took a file to the RAID card! Rex Aug 2013 #23

Array controller Aerows Aug 2013 #28

Oh just eyeballing what I was seeing in the picture Rex Aug 2013 #39

It's hard to understand how someone could post so many identical comments about something so trivial delrem Aug 2013 #47

I guess you've never run into a computer nerd. Rex Aug 2013 #48

Two reasons. Chan790 Aug 2013 #61

Ah, so your charge is that The Guardian is lying! Way to go!! delrem Aug 2013 #64

Okay Aerows Aug 2013 #30

I understand RAIDs... Dr Hobbitstein Aug 2013 #45

Well, nobody Aerows Aug 2013 #46

Sadly, I don't have the money to buy what I want... Dr Hobbitstein Aug 2013 #49

Attached storage is still best for me Aerows Aug 2013 #50

NAS doesn't move fast enough for editing/capturing broadcast video, or Dr Hobbitstein Aug 2013 #62

Looks like they had a grinder with a cutting blade JoeyT Aug 2013 #67

It's depicted in the article as a picture of the computer. Festivito Aug 2013 #27

And everything else Aerows Aug 2013 #29

+10000000 railsback Aug 2013 #42

They might have taken it with them. JoeyT Aug 2013 #66

It makes me smile to see the NSA and the GCHQ LuvNewcastle Aug 2013 #6

Excellent point!! What goes around comes around. 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #13

You can do it, if you like. LuvNewcastle Aug 2013 #18

Thanks .. I just may. sweet dreams. eom 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #20

Question: Why are the Guardian, Greenwald, et al holding on to this information? NightWatcher Aug 2013 #11

Actually there was a great OP on that very thing today 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #24

the British "Official Secrets Act" and their other legislation does not meet the same standard as Douglas Carpenter Aug 2013 #25

"the American legal protections of the media are about the strongest in the world" 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #26

**************LOFL*************** uponit7771 Aug 2013 #32

"Way to keep a story pumped... " 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #33

Yeap, I want people to see all post too... even the ones I don't agree with. kicker uponit7771 Aug 2013 #34

Snowden stonecutter357 Aug 2013 #35

It's ALL of our data! Precisely. 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #37

Seems Cryptoad Aug 2013 #51

The Guardian had a gun to its head, in case you didn't notice 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #52

Thats my point Cryptoad Aug 2013 #53

You have got to be kidding me 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #54

Yea I mean what i said Cryptoad Aug 2013 #55

dodgy 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #56

Who confessed? nt Cryptoad Aug 2013 #57

You appear to be claiming that the Guardian "confessed" 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #59

Video: I would rather destroy the files than hand them back to NSA/GCHQ-Guardian's Alan Rusbridger Catherina Aug 2013 #60

Why is the picture missing the macbook shell? AZ Progressive Aug 2013 #63

Isn't that the shell on the far right, silver-ish color? 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #65