NYT is still down on my internal USA ISP.
As I remember when I exited I gave good sources a list of people they couldn’t trust IMHO. Bad sources got what they deserved.
]]>“Hackers using DDoS to TangoDown The New York Times website”
Funny, that… 😉 🙂
]]>I managed to get a connection initially (about 20 min’s ago), but now all I get after several attempts is:
Http /1.1 Service Unavailable
I even tried connecting via my VPN in Chicago (and several other Countries). Other sites are fine, so it’s not my VPN (otherwise, I couldn’t post this). 😉
Maybe their servers were swamped because of the article. 😉
Apart from that, Ms Poitras strikes me as a very intelligent and sane person. I wouldn’t underestimate her. 🙂
Protecting sources was one of the reasons I finally decided to leave DIO (was the final reason actually). The new boss didn’t seem to understand the relationship and the meaning of ‘confidential’. I was asked to provide a list (a typed list mind you) of my contacts with details ‘in case something happened to me’! To which my response was “Are you f***ing insane???!” After a heated *debate* and an ultimatum from the boss, I resigned. I was nagged for a few years after for the names… and they made things *difficult* for me. I’d let my contacts know I was out of the biz and they should live their lives and forget everything, especially me. I told them not to trust the new brooms in the office, they would just get them arrested or killed probably.
I don’t miss it, the last year anyway. I have to admit that there were many things I missed about the years earlier. I can’t wait to right that book! 😉 Not too long to go now… 😆
I just checked Is it down right now?
and it’s down completely.
]]>A good spy, cop, journalist, etc. has to protect their sources. If you burn a source who didn’t burn you first, you won’t be trusted and you can’t be effective. If you don’t burn a source that lied to you, you will be lied to by all your sources.
Glenn is a good front for the operation because he is a known face, but I noticed the Guardian sent one of their trusted people along with Glenn and Poitras to protect the interests of the company. It is nice to see professionals at work – trust but verify. Glenn Greenwald seems to be the least important person in the real story. He really comes across as a bit naive about how bad things are, but he has the strengths of a good trial lawyer – he is combative, erudite and theatrical.
]]>Her desire to stay out of the story is pretty easy to explain if you consider that she appears to have the mentality of a good spook and no spook wants to be in the limelight. It interferes with gathering intelligence. Hmm, documentary film making, gathering intelligence, I guess there *is* some overlap there…
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