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How the hell does the register get it's hands on this?

mortov 12y ago
Because right now people have access to GPG and can send information reasonably securely to journalists. But don't worry, a 3 [or 4] letter agency near you is working real hard on that. The stuff about terrorists can wait as that's not quite as important as stopping you knowing about what the agency is up to. The supposed masters in charge of limiting them - government ministers - are willfully compliant in the manipulation and deceit. [edit:spelling; I wish english was my first language.]
- tomp 12y ago
  > [edit:spelling; I wish english was my first language.] Don't. Chances are, you'd never be incentivized to learn a foreign language, which stretches your mind and broadens your culture.
  - panarky 12y ago
    And those of us who are native English speakers do unspeakable violence to the language with words like "incentivized". http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Incentivize http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Incentivize
- mdisraeli 12y ago
  Those of us working with the UK government probably all just had to double-take then to work out which GPG you meant :P (There was a UK government security document series called GPG)
chippy 12y ago
All of the UK national papers have had their hands on this for some time. The papers have obeyed the government into not publishing the story. The Register deemed that there is no harm that can be done to the state. As diodesign repeats in another comment (edited): "The [UK] government have made it plain that in their view not only foreign powers (ie probably Russia and others) have full access to the Snowden leaks, but quite possibly 'non state actors' also. ..it seemed to us that the public should know - as there's no further intelligence hit for UK.gov to take, by its own analysis."
ttctciyf 12y ago
Note the byline: Duncan Campbell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Campbell_%28journalist%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Campbell_%28journalist%2... That's how :)
falconfunction 12y ago
well if you can't say shit about chiropractors in the uk I do wonder
csandreasen 12y ago
I think that's probably the more interesting story here. It looks like the Snowden leaks have leaked. See: http://www.businessinsider.com/new-snowden-leak-about-uk-spy-base-2014-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/new-snowden-leak-about-uk-spy...

Because right now people have access to GPG and can send information reasonably securely to journalists. But don't worry, a 3 [or 4] letter agency near you is working real hard on that. The stuff about terrorists can wait as that's not quite as important as stopping you knowing about what the agency is up to. The supposed masters in charge of limiting them - government ministers - are willfully compliant in the manipulation and deceit. [edit:spelling; I wish english was my first language.]

tomp 12y ago
> [edit:spelling; I wish english was my first language.] Don't. Chances are, you'd never be incentivized to learn a foreign language, which stretches your mind and broadens your culture.
- panarky 12y ago
  And those of us who are native English speakers do unspeakable violence to the language with words like "incentivized". http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Incentivize http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Incentivize
mdisraeli 12y ago
Those of us working with the UK government probably all just had to double-take then to work out which GPG you meant :P (There was a UK government security document series called GPG)

chippy 12y ago

All of the UK national papers have had their hands on this for some time. The papers have obeyed the government into not publishing the story. The Register deemed that there is no harm that can be done to the state. As diodesign repeats in another comment (edited): "The [UK] government have made it plain that in their view not only foreign powers (ie probably Russia and others) have full access to the Snowden leaks, but quite possibly 'non state actors' also. ..it seemed to us that the public should know - as there's no further intelligence hit for UK.gov to take, by its own analysis."

ttctciyf 12y ago

Note the byline: Duncan Campbell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Campbell_%28journalist%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Campbell_%28journalist%2... That's how :)

falconfunction 12y ago

well if you can't say shit about chiropractors in the uk I do wonder

csandreasen 12y ago

I think that's probably the more interesting story here. It looks like the Snowden leaks have leaked. See: http://www.businessinsider.com/new-snowden-leak-about-uk-spy-base-2014-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/new-snowden-leak-about-uk-spy...