FWIW, if you find my request for a crosscheck laughable – fine, laugh. I’d also be requesting crosscheck on assertions that systems were secure.
No, I don’t much like Snowden or how he’s handling the issues, and I don’t particularly consider him a hero who can do no wrong or make no mistakes.
Then again, I don’t think anyone should be treated as a hero who can do no wrong or make no mistakes. The fact that an item has his name attached to it is, or should be, mostly orthogonal to the facts. Yes, it may mean we should take it more seriously than a claim from a random wearer of tinfoil hats – but that means “investigate seriously”, not “immediately accept as proven”.
