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Posted: 12/28/2015 10:47:42 PM EDT
I was assured that it was catastrophic and that blood would run in the streets.
Link Posted: 12/28/2015 10:50:48 PM EDT
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The news doesn't cover it, war is so yesterday.
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Link Posted: 12/28/2015 10:51:56 PM EDT
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Obama ended all the wars
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In. With popcorn. And I might be touching myself a little.
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Oh, it's you.

It still makes a difference. Pretty big one at that.
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It seems like you have a time limit on possible damage done.   Hopefully you're not so stupid and willfully ignorant to assert that because no damage as been done, that no damage can or will be done.

You're not that stupid, are you?
Link Posted: 12/28/2015 11:01:33 PM EDT
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Oh, it's you.

It still makes a difference. Pretty big one at that.
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Oh, it's you.

It still makes a difference. Pretty big one at that.


Link Posted: 12/28/2015 11:02:31 PM EDT
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Oh, it's you.

It still makes a difference. Pretty big one at that.


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You'll have to forgive me if I can't find the humor in your statement given your past positions on similar topics.
Link Posted: 12/28/2015 11:03:49 PM EDT
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Herrrrr derrrr "I can't see the outcome of the leaking of classified info on a classified community, so therefore it isn't a big deal"

You can't be that dumb OP, you're just being obtuse to start shit.
Link Posted: 12/28/2015 11:05:29 PM EDT
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You'll have to forgive me if I can't find the humor in your statement given your past positions on similar topics.
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It still makes a difference. Pretty big one at that.


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You'll have to forgive me if I can't find the humor in your statement given your past positions on similar topics.


Sounds like someone has sand in their vagina.

Link Posted: 12/28/2015 11:08:49 PM EDT
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In point of fact I have been a bit under the weather lately and as a result I am not my usual jovial self.

My interest here is in squashing the "my tax money paid for that classification system" argument before we hit page 2 because it is a laughably fallacious distraction and unbecoming of someone sporting a tank.
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Most people will likely never know what effects it has had.
Link Posted: 12/28/2015 11:11:44 PM EDT
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I wouldn't take a bet that the Chicoms have even finished looking through what they've got.
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Are paint chips tasty?
Link Posted: 12/28/2015 11:17:09 PM EDT
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Op, you wouldn't work in upper management at OPM , would you ?
Link Posted: 12/28/2015 11:17:35 PM EDT
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I don't recall anyone thinking that people were going to die because some Chinese hackers suddenly had a pile of personal information.  

They are most likely to use that data to find people to exploit as spies to get classified data about US military hardware so they can make more shit that looks just like our shit, while claiming it is their own new and improved shit.
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Then I am not seeing any reason to care
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Is that guy hiding from all the Horrible Unseen Effects of Edward snowden's leaks?
Link Posted: 12/28/2015 11:33:11 PM EDT
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Came to post this.

Correct thread title is "How many personnel and assets have been compromised due to data leaks."
Link Posted: 12/28/2015 11:37:20 PM EDT
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He's looking for dinosaurs bro
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He's looking for dinosaurs bro
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Is that guy hiding from all the Horrible Unseen Effects of Edward snowden's leaks?

He's looking for dinosaurs bro


He's going to be disappointed when that 800 million year dinosaur bone in the sand turns out to be some kfc a dog found in the trash and buried
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Came to post this.

Correct thread title is "How many personnel and assets have been compromised due to data leaks."


Link Posted: 12/28/2015 11:43:18 PM EDT
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We will never fucking know.... And I pray to god non of them have but they way our world works, I highly suspect it....
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I think head in the sand is way different than clueless.
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Link Posted: 12/28/2015 11:46:02 PM EDT
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Let me get this straight...you want a unclassified counterintel damage assessment?

surely the leaks were so massively, mind blowingly damaging that anyone could see the effects? Public assassination of identified spies etc.

to me it seems that the leaks hurt the federal governments credibility with its citizens far more than any individual service member.
Link Posted: 12/28/2015 11:49:57 PM EDT
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Assessments made on the subject are 90 percent assumption and 10 percent observed enemy action.  Bottom line for me, had the government not been trying to find a way to intentionally fuck over Americans liberties I would be defending them.  Instead they chose poorly, and therfore fuck them and everything they own.  Prioritize citizens over .gov and all my ducks magically appear again. Til then...
Link Posted: 12/28/2015 11:56:59 PM EDT
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The Chinese are trying to analyze all the data, but their database keeps sharting.
 
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Of course you aren't. It will affect you anyway.
Link Posted: 12/29/2015 2:11:58 AM EDT
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Specifically what information are we talking about here?  I've seen most of the documents leaked to the public by Snowden, and none of it is really surprising.

What am I missing?  Not trying to imply there was no harm done.  I really don't know.
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IF WE DON'T BUY 2,000 F-35S THE IRANIANS WILL MARCH THROUGH CHICAGO.





Oh wait, wrong thread.
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Of course you aren't. It will affect you anyway.
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Of course you aren't. It will affect you anyway.


Nope, I really really do not care. The people who care the most are the ones whose job and credibility was hurt by the leaks. And that's a good thing, on the list of actual tangible threats to safety, governments with such secret programs and lists have caused millions of victims. I'd take exposing the NSA over being protected from some secret effects that will affect me but I won't know it. Ridiculous

Maybe the government could start weeding out some of those refugee programs if they really want to do something for national security.

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Nope, I really really do not care. The people who care the most are the ones whose job and credibility was hurt by the leaks. And that's a good thing, on the list of actual tangible threats to safety, governments with such secret programs and lists have caused millions of victims. I'd take exposing the NSA over being protected from some secret effects that will affect me but I won't know it. Ridiculous

Maybe the government could start weeding out some of those refugee programs if they really want to do something for national security.

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Then I am not seeing any reason to care


Of course you aren't. It will affect you anyway.


Nope, I really really do not care. The people who care the most are the ones whose job and credibility was hurt by the leaks. And that's a good thing, on the list of actual tangible threats to safety, governments with such secret programs and lists have caused millions of victims. I'd take exposing the NSA over being protected from some secret effects that will affect me but I won't know it. Ridiculous

Maybe the government could start weeding out some of those refugee programs if they really want to do something for national security.


You're essentially cheering for the death of Americans and championing the cause of our enemies.

You're just so fucking edgy, you bleed.
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Who has died because of Snowden leaks?
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The butthurt Gov.bot crew assured us that Snowden's revelations were crippling and damaging in ways that our tiny civilian brains could barely comprehend. National Security! America might finish the game with less Civ Points! Badder than bad, we were told, this was going to be WORSE!

So, it's fair to ask, a year and a half on, what's actually worse for the US? (Referring to the spied upon, not the spy-ers.) What American has been materially harmed in the past 18 months because of what Snowden revealed?


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You can see the future I assume?
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You're just so fucking edgy, you bleed.






Who has died because of Snowden leaks?


If someone died from the leak of classified information.. that would be public knowledge?



If no death is measurable as a result yet there is no damage?



 
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Specifically what information are we talking about here?  I've seen most of the documents leaked to the public by Snowden, and none of it is really surprising.

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You didn't see all the docs he released. You saw the ones he wanted to you to see.
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Who has died because of Snowden leaks?

If someone died from the leak of classified information.. that would be public knowledge?

If no death is measurable as a result yet there is no damage?
 



So it's bad (and "edgy") to be happy the NSA spying was exposed, because someone might have died from it, but we don't know because its a secret. Am I following that right?
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You didn't see all the docs he released. You saw the ones he the FSB wanted to you to see.
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You didn't see all the docs he released. You saw the ones he the FSB wanted to you to see.

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What am I missing?  Not trying to imply there was no harm done.  I really don't know.


You didn't see all the docs he released. You saw the ones he the FSB wanted to you to see.



It certainly does not look good for Snowden that he fled to Russia, no doubt about that.  Do we know that he provided them with additional information?  If he did, I cannot imagine how anyone could support that.
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Nope, I really really do not care. The people who care the most are the ones whose job and credibility was hurt by the leaks. And that's a good thing, on the list of actual tangible threats to safety, governments with such secret programs and lists have caused millions of victims. I'd take exposing the NSA over being protected from some secret effects that will affect me but I won't know it. Ridiculous

Maybe the government could start weeding out some of those refugee programs if they really want to do something for national security.

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Then I am not seeing any reason to care


Of course you aren't. It will affect you anyway.


Nope, I really really do not care. The people who care the most are the ones whose job and credibility was hurt by the leaks. And that's a good thing, on the list of actual tangible threats to safety, governments with such secret programs and lists have caused millions of victims. I'd take exposing the NSA over being protected from some secret effects that will affect me but I won't know it. Ridiculous

Maybe the government could start weeding out some of those refugee programs if they really want to do something for national security.


Do you think data collection programs are the only thing the NSA does? Serious question, no sarcasm.
Link Posted: 12/29/2015 2:40:02 AM EDT
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Do you mean the snowden stuff or the OPM data breach?

Chances are you don't know the difference OP, you seem illiterate.
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Sure, they have other stuff to do. On paper, at least, more important stuff. Though the nature of that other stuff isn't as important as they'd like for everyone to think. But that's another thread.

And sure, folks are going to equate them with creepy guys who hang out at parks and stare at playing kids. That's sort of the consequence of becoming the domestic surveillance branch of the US government.
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Sure, they have other stuff to do. On paper, at least, more important stuff. Though the nature of that other stuff isn't as important as they'd like for everyone to think. But that's another thread.

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Sure, they have other stuff to do. On paper, at least, more important stuff. Though the nature of that other stuff isn't as important as they'd like for everyone to think. But that's another thread.

And sure, folks are going to equate them with creepy guys who hang out at parks and stare at playing kids. That's sort of the consequence of becoming the domestic surveillance branch of the US government.


Ok you got me. I had a reply but I literally am speechless. I have nothing to add.
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Sure, they have other stuff to do. On paper, at least, more important stuff. Though the nature of that other stuff isn't as important as they'd like for everyone to think. But that's another thread.

And sure, folks are going to equate them with creepy guys who hang out at parks and stare at playing kids. That's sort of the consequence of becoming the domestic surveillance branch of the US government.


Ok you got me. I had a reply but I literally am speechless. I have nothing to add.



Oh, don't be speechless. I heap as much scorn at the equally 'modestly usefull' (to be polite) CIA as I do at the NSA.

American intelligence agencies, be they targeted domestically or internationally, are GREAT at spending money in hard to track ways, but have a pretty abysmal record at actually helping the US be prepared for coming events. So cries about damage to said agencies are kind of pointless, other than to protect the bureaucracy for bureaucracies sake.
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Oh, don't be speechless. I heap as much scorn at the equally 'modestly usefull' (to be polite) CIA as I do at the NSA.

American intelligence agencies, be they targeted domestically or internationally, are GREAT at spending money in hard to track ways, but have a pretty abysmal record at actually helping the US be prepared for coming events. So cries about damage to said agencies are kind of pointless, other than to protect the bureaucracy for bureaucracies sake.
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Sure, they have other stuff to do. On paper, at least, more important stuff. Though the nature of that other stuff isn't as important as they'd like for everyone to think. But that's another thread.

And sure, folks are going to equate them with creepy guys who hang out at parks and stare at playing kids. That's sort of the consequence of becoming the domestic surveillance branch of the US government.


Ok you got me. I had a reply but I literally am speechless. I have nothing to add.



Oh, don't be speechless. I heap as much scorn at the equally 'modestly usefull' (to be polite) CIA as I do at the NSA.

American intelligence agencies, be they targeted domestically or internationally, are GREAT at spending money in hard to track ways, but have a pretty abysmal record at actually helping the US be prepared for coming events. So cries about damage to said agencies are kind of pointless, other than to protect the bureaucracy for bureaucracies sake.


There haven't been any earthquake fatalities in the USA since 2003, so I believe the NSA has been protecting us from earthquakes. We will know now if an earthquake happens in the future, that it was due to Edward Snowden
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