Because Glenn Greenwald is who he is, NSA spying is fine

[joshcryer]

79. Yes.

I didn't even know of him. He should release the files. Full stop. They can't prove he was the one to have done it unless the others say they have more files and subvert him and testify against him (ie, they know what files he has and say they have the rest and testify in court against him).

It remains a fact that nothing substantive came of the Manning cables until the entire dataset was released. Why? Because Wikileaks was trying to get media corporations from various countries to pay them to see what was inside. If it wasn't for the lapse in key security we may have never seen the cables in a mass dump and the impact would've been minimal at best (which itself was hilarious, much like how Snowden using bitmessage was a hilarious lapse in security judgment).

Never underestimate the ability of society to become apathetic from a trickle of information, it requires a dump, so that the journalists of the world can go over it and highlight every single thing. This is the information age. They say that Wikileaks and Greenwald are going about it the right way by "keeping the story alive" but it's apparent that the load was blown and there has been little blowback against the NSA. I think the NSA is happy with how the reaction has been. A few big hits, but after that a gradually irrelevant hit? I hope to fuck there's more in there that is groundbreaking, but I won't hold my breath.