Edward Snowden On Trump, Privacy, and Threats to Democracy: One Hour Interview on MSNBC
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I don’t think he made any specific suggestion that the Russians hacked the DNC. In fact, I’m pretty sure he’s aware the evidence for that is next to zero – unless some contact that he still has in the NSA has provided him with evidence or at least an assertion otherwise.
What he said was more along the lines that historically the Russians interfered in elections, and the US interfered in *more* elections, but the real issue is how to prevent such interference by anyone.
What he failed to point out was that it’s impossible to do that. You can make it harder but you can’t make it impossible. That applies to everything else he said about security.
As the meme that I invented says: “You can haz better security, you can haz worse security. But you cannot haz ‘security’. There is no security. Deal.”
I don’t think he made any specific suggestion that the Russians hacked the DNC. In fact, I’m pretty sure he’s aware the evidence for that is next to zero – unless some contact that he still has in the NSA has provided him with evidence or at least an assertion otherwise.
What he said was more along the lines that historically the Russians interfered in elections, and the US interfered in *more* elections, but the real issue is how to prevent such interference by anyone.
What he failed to point out was that it’s impossible to do that. You can make it harder but you can’t make it impossible. That applies to everything else he said about security.
As the meme that I invented says: “You can haz better security, you can haz worse security. But you cannot haz ‘security’. There is no security. Deal.”