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The people at GCHQ do take Cryptome seriously: https://prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/20... (KARMA POLICE)

The writing could be one (or many) of many things: Leveling, acting, craziness, fooling, making an obscure point, fnords, trolling, an in-joke, a nod to author identification or woolly self-aggrandizing media reporting, being brash and adversarial for the hell of it, attention whoring, readership selection etc.

I don't think it is supposed to make sense, except maybe for a select few of insiders. We had Cryptome vs. Wikileaks, Cryptome vs. Appelbaum and now Cryptome vs. Snowden. Something-something about letting the leaks do the talking, not the money and spin doctors.

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Or, given that it's Cryptome, it could be a an attempt to foil stylometry.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/why-hackers-should...

>The people at GCHQ do take Cryptome seriously: https://prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/20.... (KARMA POLICE)

I don't think that image signifies that they take cryptome seriously but think that some of the users could be interesting.

I'm sure the people at GCHQ, NSA familiar with cryptome know just as well as anyone else (familiar with cryptome) knows that it's a bit of a joke.

It is about information needing to be free. That is the point not racking up speaking fees or self promotion.

"On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other." -Stewart Brand

The full quote is much more nuanced than just 'Info want be free!'

Yes you are right, but you still have to pick a side and I know that I what information to be free. All of it. So you can fight to keep it hidden or you can fight for it to be free. But by trying to hide it you have to know that by its nature it wants to be free and shared. the government relies on the levers influence over the individual be it financial, physical or other means to keep that info out of common knowledge. So you can decide to be part of the solution or part of the problem . The biggest problem people have with Cryptome is they see this in very black and white terms.

snowden doesn't seem like he's very employable at the moment. if he doesn't take speaking fees, what's he going to live on? alms?

Well I think Cryptome is taking more issue with who has the info than with Snowden his only role was in taking it and whom he chose to give it to.

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