Host Shane Parrish, a former intelligence analyst, argues that Edward Snowden's disclosure of technical exploitation tools had fatal consequences.
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“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.”
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