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

Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Thu Aug 11 15:02:45 CEST 2022


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

Short answer: he didn't.

> GnuPG is one of the tools that Snowden used to
> uncover the secrets of the NSA.

This is incorrect.

According to Glenn Greenwald, he used GnuPG to communicate privately 
with a couple of journalists.  GnuPG played no role in his exfiltrating 
data out of Fort Meade.
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