On 2013-06-11 20:33, Paul Graydon wrote:
For what it's worth I'm inclined to think he should have leaked it, and that he arguably had a /personal, and ethical /responsibility to do so. That's a /personal /obligation though/,/ not /professional/ obligation.
I don't agree, this looks like a cop out to avoid the discussion. He is one person, and had to make a decision.
Now that I understand the situation better, specifically that what NSA is doing is legal in the U.S., I disagree with Snowden method, or at least timing (he could have explain to the press what was going on without giving company names etc... and keep the document as a last resort if nobody took him seriously, or the government played down the scale of the issue).
To me this story points to another issue: We, as IT professional, have failed to raise the profile of those laws to the general public. We talked about it between ourselves, praise the one company who setup a Warrant Canary etc... but failed to make press releases, and keep it in the news.
-- Yves. http://www.SollerS.ca/ Unix/Linux and Python specialist in Calgary. http://blog.zioup.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
