How did Edward Joseph Snowden use GnuPG to uncover the secrets of the National Security Agency?

Fernando Cassia fcassia at gmail.com
Thu Aug 11 09:56:19 CEST 2022


On 11/08/2022, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via Gnupg-users
<gnupg-users at gnupg.org> wrote:
> Subject: How did Edward Joseph Snowden use GnuPG to uncover the
> secrets of the National Security Agency?
>
> Good day from Singapore,
>
> [QUOTE]
>
> Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you
> have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about
> free speech because you have nothing to say. – Edward Snowden
>
> Using encryption helps to protect your privacy and the privacy of the
> people you communicate with. Encryption makes life difficult for bulk
> surveillance systems. GnuPG is one of the tools that Snowden used to
> uncover the secrets of the NSA.
>
> [/QUOTE]
>
> How did Edward Joseph Snowden use GnuPG to uncover the secrets of the
> National Security Agency?
>
> I am very interested to know. Are there any detailed write-ups?

Probably this
https://theintercept.com/2014/10/28/smuggling-snowden-secrets/

Also Snowden is probably a Russian asset by now, but whatver.
https://observer.com/2016/09/the-real-ed-snowden-is-a-patsy-a-fraud-and-a-kremlin-controlled-pawn/

FC



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