Edward Snowden
5 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 4 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 14, 2019 by Gabriel Weinberg · said 30 times in 3 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2020 26 mentions in 2 episodes 13 per episode
2019 4 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Edward Snowden, oldest first
May 14, 2019
Post-Snowden Studies Showed Measurable Drops in Sensitive Wikipedia Search Queries
“Right after Snowden, there were two studies that were really interesting. One is people stopped searching terrorism related terms because presumably they feel that they might've been investigated if they searched. So the terms like Al Qaeda and stuff like that…”
Sep 29, 2020 negative
Parrish: Snowden's leak of exploitation techniques cost people lives
“You can just reveal the details of the programs, but the actual techniques that he revealed, the software techniques, the exploitation techniques that, I mean, that, that definitely cost people lives that had a huge impact on people working there.”
Sep 29, 2020 negative
Parrish: Bureaucratic hiring creates homogeneous teams with shared blind spots
“What happens is like post Snowden you end up hiring, I call it the storm trooper problem, which is like you end up basically hiring the same type of person, right? They're sort of like never had a problem in their life. They get straight A's. They do all the r…”
Sep 29, 2020 negative
Holland: Snowden leaked legitimate programs just to insult the intelligence community
“Why did he, you know, expose completely legitimate legal intelligence gathering programs that have a ton of people's names associated with that? Why did he go out the door with that? And that, I think, is what I have a much larger problem with in that, you kno…”