General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: NSA Staffer: Snowden Didn't Dupe Coworkers Out of Passwords [View all]This story is at its base about NSA spying, not about liberal vs conservative philosophies.
There are very few news sources that do not have an agenda these days. Forbes, being a business-oriented publication, is not surprisingly of a conservative bent. That in itself does not make their report in this case wrong.
Granted, since there is only one source quoted, we should take the report with the proverbial grain of salt vis a vis Snowden's abilities. But I will point out that, given the nature of this story: i.e., given that the NSA routinely spies on Americans as well as foreigners, and given that this is the biggest leak in NSA history, and given that anyone who works for the NSA can be forgiven for worrying that THEY might be spied on -- given all of that, it is not surprising that only a single anonymous NSA employee came forward with further information about Snowden when he worked for the agency.
So I may not be ready to deem Snowden a "genius", a term that is over-used. But it seems clear to me that he is a very smart and capable computer geek. People and publications with agendas have been smearing him from day one, trying to pooh-pooh his capabilities, so if one publication with an agenda says otherwise -- and uses an internal NSA employee to do so -- well, it's always good to even things out a bit. Snowden the individual is up against some very scary PTB.
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