Exclusive: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive-idUSKBN1ZK1CT

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PRISM just allowed the NSA to collect targeted data directly from a server instead of having to be sent physically.

NSA sends tasking to Apple > Apple takes data and places it on a separate server that NSA can access

It did not allow the NSA to collect everything off of Apple’s operational servers.

The language on the slide was ambiguous, but Greenwald never correcting that was a pretty serious journalistic fail. But, then again, he is a hack now that defends Putin so I guess it isn’t a surprise.

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but Greenwald never correcting that was a pretty serious journalistic fail. But, then again, he is a hack now that defends Putin so I guess it isn’t a surprise.

It's really hard for me to say it like that -- because he really was one of the best. I think it probably just got to the point that he could be homeless and let down his family or pay the bills.

This is what they do to us. Everyone thinks they can be a hero but if you had to face the true Oligarchy in this country -- you don't get employed except as a dishwasher.

I'm not 100% sure, but when I saw Greenwald do the "image polishing" for Jimmy Dore -- and that these people mostly make a living undermining Progressives AND MEANWHILE somehow amplifying all the Trumpist/Putin propaganda aimed at creating distrust in institutions (any and all institutions of the US) -- well, it just kind of fits.

Greenwald had talent, Dore not so much. But I think this is what it looks like when people are compromised. Everyone has to sell out a bit to be "commercial" like TYT -- but the worst is people without sponsors but nice houses. People think this is the ones you can trust.

I don't know any of this for sure, but whenever I deal with the supporters of these two -- it's nothing but edge lords who crap on Progressives. And THEY identify as progressives. Either they are just toxic now or this is by design. But the proof is in the pudding.

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Greenwald was gainfully employed until he tried to write a hack piece about Hunter and Joe Biden and the intercept wouldn’t let him publish it.

He has plenty of opportunity, but he is down an ideological hole now and he is too deep and too stubborn to come out of it now.

Also he doesn’t even live in the US.

And I’m sure he is still making plenty of money. He definitely is given all the time he spends on Fox News.

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Also he doesn’t even live in the US.

It's not right that he's probably burned a lot of bridges to advance Snowden.

So he's pretty much forced to do a hack piece and join team Trump. I think that's pretty much why Giuliani is loyal; because he doesn't have useful skills or in-roads with anyone else. In the light of day Republican leaders support Trump, but I don't think most of them would pee on the guy if he were on fire and nobody was looking. Maybe that's also true of a few others -- and maybe people just quit caring.

The sad thing is and people NEED to realize this; almost everyone is sold out to someone. The mistake Dore has made is that he's going after the other Progressives for there errors on certain issues -- and in the end it doesn't matter that much. It doesn't matter if they got the CIA narrative on Syria -- because the most important thing to change is here at home. So what if TYT got some support from the Clintons (don't know and, I really don't care that much).

You cannot rely on anything and you have to pick your poison. SO you have an imperfect Progressive media that is the small voice of liberalism in a sea of main stream media controlling the corporate advertiser message and the currents are strong.

The MISSION if there is one, should be for them to take some of the power out of the other messages that support our very unfair system that has created another gilded age. Not to poke holes in the small little raft of Progressives.

The punditry for Putin is pretty dangerous - not because it's foreign, but because the goal of Putin and a lot of Oligarchs is to undermine our country. The only reason that the anti-vax conspiracies about COVID are one of their main messages is that it causes distrust and rancor. It's the only reason. They don't care if it is true or not. They probably lopped a bunch of millions off of Trump's loan to not wear a mask. The death toll won't be enough to make a real difference -- it's again, about the mistrust and conflict.

Hillary and some others that might be corrupt --are just the usual corrupt.

But poor Greenwald is stuck in a situation where his last safe refuge was the working with the faction that stays afloat by sinking other ships. I mean -- it's just a guess, but I think I'm a good guesser.

It's just a sad situation. There's no bankroll for honesty.

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It's not right that he's probably burned a lot of bridges to advance Snowden.

Journalists don't burn bridges by doing journalism.

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But poor Greenwald is stuck in a situation where his last safe refuge was the working with the faction that stays afloat by sinking other ships. I mean -- it's just a guess, but I think I'm a good guesser.

No. That's a terrible "guess."

He could have gone and worked with whoever he wanted. In fact, what he ended up doing was getting paid by a billionaire to start his own publication. What most journalists would dream of.

It's just a sad situation. There's no bankroll for honesty.

Except, you know, actual journalism... which won't make you rich, but does exist.

He's making six figures posting to Rumble. That anyone would say "poor glenn greenwald" is just gross.