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Anything that's not perfectly thought through is going to leak.

We had a test feed leak out onto a live page for a couple of hours, and man did it make the news.

Every time there is a leak > like this, the powers that be close the circle of trust a little tighter.

I listen to NPR every day and it's almost insufferable to listen to when they talk about the NSA leak.

> David Brooks made a case for why he thought Snowden was wrong to leak information about the Prism surveillance program ...

I don't mean in the weak sense of "won't leak resources" but in the stronger sense of leaving the system in a consistent state after an exception.

Hm, we should make an Ask HN thread - what is the best ingenious methods for current NSA employees to leak again, now that they have to share a computer with a partner?

As more documents leak, I become increasingly concerned with the apparently blank cheque for surveillance that the NSA has been issued.

I initially was anti-Snowden when the first leaks came out; I was unconcerned that the government might be storing metadata.

Very little of the debate is about the actual NSA monitoring program itself, most of of the time they talk about why this leak happened and why Edward Snowden is a "strange" guy.

Manning didn't leak "war crimes", he leaked whatever info he could download, without verifying that it was all actually evidence deserving of whistle-blowing.

There are certainly similar transgressions committed by less "problematic" politicians that never leak.

Even better, what if the government was closing in a child pornographer with chemical weapons and a nuke, and the leak allowed him to rape more children while nuking a nunnery and poisoning an orphanage?

I would not under almost any circumstances, including the revelation that he was working directly with the FSB† when he decided what to leak, use the word "traitor" to describe a national security leaker.

And a couple of years later when the tub sprung a leak, the plumber couldnt figure out how to get in there, said they must have done a shoddy job on connecting the pipes, then when he finally got a good look at it, realized why they did it that way.

However nice it might be to peek into diplomatic traffic from the outside, it was still classified, it was not evidence of war crimes, and Manning never read it all anyways before he leaked it to a foreign national over an unsecure network.

The idea that the character of the whistleblowers themselves has anything to do with the quality or impact of the information they leak is a propaganda trick enforced by the media-- a leak with a face can be discredited if the face can be discredited, and in the 21st century, everyone has skeletons in the closet.