Greenwald's partner was carrying Snowden do ents on confiscated thumb drives

[Galileo]

Greenwald's partner was carrying Snowden do ents on confiscated thumb drives

Mr. Miranda was in Berlin to deliver do ents related to Mr. Greenwald’s investigation into government surveillance to Ms. Poitras, Mr. Greenwald said. Ms. Poitras, in turn, gave Mr. Miranda different do ents to pass to Mr. Greenwald. Those do ents, which were stored on encrypted thumb drives, were confiscated by airport security, Mr. Greenwald said. All of the do ents came from the trove of materials provided to the two journalists by Mr. Snowden. The British authorities seized all of his electronic media — including video games, DVDs and data storage devices — and did not return them, Mr. Greenwald said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/wo...tw-share&_r=1&

[boutons_deux]

will MI5 or MI6 or NSA be able to decrypt?

by what law did they confiscate?

law?

We don't need (respect) no steenkin laws.

[cheguevara]

encryption is only good as long as you keep the keys safe. unfortunately he probably had the keys with him as well among his equipment.

pretty silly at this point to be carrying sensitive data on a physical media while passing through US puppet countries like Britain, France, Spain, etc.

I have my doubts they are so stupid as to be doing that. But still, jounalists are in diapers when it comes to encryption, while NSA and their puppets are pros

[cheguevara]

Also time for Russia and South America to invest on a couple of travel hubs in Africa. Really stupid to be dependent on refueling or connecting through US puppet countries at this time.

but then I guess aerial "accidents" to and from South America would increase IMO

[Jacob1983]

Puppet countries

[velik_m]

I prefer the term vassal state.

[LnGrrrR]

I think the majority of people that actually care about civil liberties on this board called this outcome a few years ago.

Hilarious that some Republicans were calling us "soft liberals" and we had nothing to be afraid of, and now they are saying, "I can't believe Obama lied", without experiencing some sort of cognitive whiplash.

[ElNono]

High Court Rules Detention of David Miranda Was Lawful

A British lower court has ruled that London police acted lawfully in employing an anti-terror statute to detain and interrogate David Miranda for nearly nine hours at Heathrow Airport last summer, even while recognizing that the detention was “an indirect interference with press freedom.”

...

According to do ents made public during Miranda’s civil suit, police determined that he was subject to the anti-terror law because he was “likely to be involved in espionage activity” and met the technical definition of a terrorist because he was “knowingly carrying material, the release of which would endanger people’s lives” and was promoting a “political or ideological cause.”

Emphasis mine. Interesting times we're living in...

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/a...terrorism-law/

[ElNono]

Greenwald take on the ruling:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2...-conceal-gchq/

[boutons_deux]

"was promoting a “political or ideological cause.” "

just fricking WOW! political dissent is now blatantly illegal.

Hero Snowden's caper blew the covers off so much