Edward Snowden Is Tired of Being Bombarded By Suitors (mirror.co.uk) 225
cold fjord writes: The Mirror reports that Edward Snowden is experiencing some unexpected fallout from the notoriety he received from his activism for government transparency. It seems he has become something of a sex symbol and his female fans are sending him graphic nude pictures of themselves. He has found it necessary to dissuade them by reminding everyone that the FBI has a warrant for him (and probably monitor his communications so they will see the pics) and that he already has a girlfriend. No word yet on if this is having any effect.
When I said I was a fan of transparency (Score:5, Funny)
"When I said I was a fan of transparency, I did not mean transparency of clothing!"
Re:When I said I was a fan of transparency (Score:5, Funny)
If he's such a fan of transparency then how 'bout sharing the pics with the rest of the world?
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Sharing the pics with the rest of the world sounds like an excellent way to dissuade his suitors. Of course, if he did that odds are that the FBI would send him some (barely) underage pics to see if he'll share it.
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It's only illegal if they choose to prosecute themselves.
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I assume it's also illegal for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to sell weapons to drug cartels who then proceed to use these weapons in commission of crime; yet there have been no prosecutions.
Re:When I said I was a fan of transparency (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm sort of wondering if this nude pictures problem isn't a trap.The US government just took over a kiddie porn site and ran it in order to trap visitors. So what is to stop them from sending 14 or 15 year old nudes that look a little older so they can tip some Russian officials off about child porn sitting on a computer that gets tracked down to Snowden. He then losses his sanctuary and gets swept up by the feds and is a positive notch in Obama's legacy (killed Bin Laden and captured Snowden )
Of course Snowden is too smart for that and complains publicly that unrequested nudes are being sent that he doesn't want them. Now if it happens, its a setup that is obviously a setup beyond his control.
Re:When I said I was a fan of transparency (Score:5, Funny)
He then losses his sanctuary
The correct mis-spelling is "looses".
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He then losses his sanctuary
The correct mis-spelling is "looses".
Perhaps its just a typo. Perhaps we'd rather read the mistake than have to read that people cunt spell.
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+1. Actually, I think pics of 17 year olds will do for child porn. And there are plenty of those that look much older.
Re:When I said I was a fan of transparency (Score:4, Informative)
The US government would never do such an underhanded thing. Just ask Julian Assange.
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Make him look gay and you'll have a chance.
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I would bet dollars to donuts that some portion of them are traps. I would, in fact, bet that all of the following statements are each individually true:
1. Some portion of them are spys trying to get close to him
2. Some portion of them are gold diggers hoping to get spy agencies or media trolls to pay them
3. Some portion are girls who are drunk political nerds showing appreciation
4. Some portion who just want to troll him and may or may not be women or men themselves.
All of them.
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People have already been jailed for that despite that sounding insane and nothing at all to do with protecting children. I believe one case was Simpsons fan art. That's getting pretty close to stick figure.
One nasty group of vindictive idiots even pushed for a law that would have made it illegal to have naked images of short and petite women in their twenties and thirties - they stressed that the age of the subject was immaterial and the thought crime
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I was following the topic in the press and seem to recall a lot of fuss about photos of a model who was 26 at the time before it all blew over, but it's been five years so I could be wrong and I'm not sure where to find a link to that story.
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A lot of people were arrested under the law about bikers meeting, including a female librarian with no criminal record that had actually been given an award by the idiot that pushed the laws, but nothing has actually stuck in court. It had resulted in a few people locked up for over a year before their trial because originally there was a condition of no bail.
I'll read the rest and reply a bit later on.
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Ah - thanks. I knew that people had gone to jail and were sitting in jail (at the least) but was under the impression that they'd been found guilty or at least that's what I recollect the documentary saying as well as something along those lines from my local friend. That's good that it didn't hold up but unfortunate that they spent time in jail.
If I recall correctly, that's one of the differences between our legal systems. You guys write the laws and the judges determine what they mean and if they'll hold
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One of the idiot drafters of the draconian law claimed "success" when a drug dealer got five years for being a drug dealer and the judge threw out the extra fifteen years for being a drug dealing biker. Pointless, nasty, way over the top and a stupid name as well (VLAD - Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment - I'm not joking that's really the nam
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I think you should quit your day job and start writing thrillers like Robert Ludlum. You have a knack for clever plots with zero holes in them.
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Snowden is being guarded by the Russian security services, the successors of the KGB. Even if you assume that Snowden is an American patriot the simple fact is that he has bequeathed the intelligence agencies of the world a priceless cache of the innermost American government intelligence agency secrets.
Snowden gave up possession of the laptop with all the NSA data before flying to Russia. He's not stupid.
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This doesn't matter. Snowden is a rare bird - an American seeking political asylum in Russia, while having a lot of sympathy in the western world.
His usefulness to the Russians is not so much the NSA data - although chances are Russia found it easier to extract from whoever has it now, than from the NSA itself. No, he is useful because whenever American diplomats talk about 'human rights' and such, they get to make snarky remarks about Snowden. Their priced refugee! The man who fled from America! And this works especially well because Snowden never was a Russian spy.
He is also useful as an advertisement; "Look comrade, see how Edward has good life, good vodka, sexy Moscow brideski. You make us your secrets too you have fantastic Moscow brideski too."
They have nothing to gain by destroying him now. They have LOTS to gain by letting leak the (relative) fun he's having.
He gave it all to an American journalist (Score:2)
The Russians are keeping him fed merely because it's a cheap way to piss off Hillary et al.
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Also if he was holding anything back to do some sort of deal would he have run away twice?
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Snowden: The nude webcam women in your pop-up windows are not "fans"
Girlfriend? (Score:2)
The one in Hawaii? A Russian wench?
Re:Girlfriend? (Score:5, Funny)
The one in Hawaii? A Russian wench?
I think he broke up with the one in Hawaii and went to great lengths to do so - outing classified information, going on the run, etc... I think he told her, "It's not you, honey, it's the FBI." Future girlfriends beware.
Re:Girlfriend? (Score:5, Informative)
the girlfriend from hawaii lives with him in russia
She has been in Russia for a whlle (Score:2)
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A Russian wench?
Wouldn't a Russian mail order bride be much cheaper if you were already IN Russia?
Re: Girlfriend? (Score:3, Funny)
The postage and packing would be cheaper, certainly.
honeytraps everywhere (Score:5, Insightful)
Snowden's no fool. You get a few genuine groupies, but as many are probably trying to catch the guy out. See also Julian.
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Leak them (Score:2)
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Idiot, just leak the pictures.
because the internet has almost run out of pictures of naked women.
Tabloid (Score:2)
A new low!
update: to assist ladies and Snowden, GF search (Score:5, Funny)
To assist both Edward and ladies who are interested in him, a special email address has been set up specifically to find Snowden's next girlfriend. After weeding out the fatties and the geriatrics, finalists will be reviewed by Snowden, for when he gets tired of his current GF.
Ladies, please send your nerd creds and nudes to gfsearch@raymorris.org .
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it gets old (Score:5, Funny)
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It's probably not that great really. Remember, he's in Russia, and presumably all these women sending him nudie pics are not. So it's not like he can just meet up with them on a moment's notice, even if he was single.
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Not to mention he isn't single and there is nothing that will cause issues in your relationship than naked photos of other women on your phone.
I understand (Score:5, Funny)
To be honest, I have the same problem. After the thousandth chick sends you a selfie of her pootenanny, it gets a bit tiresome.
Oh, who am I kidding? No, it doesn't.
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Depends which street.
Let's say you pick a street in one of those surf towns in California. You can spend an entire week there and every single girl you see is porn material. On the other hand, go to NYC or Boston and you'll need a barf bag.
And it's not just in the USA. Go to Seoul, then go to Beijing. Or go to Amsterdam, then go to Copenhagen. You'll see how unrandomly beauty is distributed.
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WTF are you talking about? NYC is full of beautiful (and frequently single) women. In fact, every liberal-ish major US city is full of beautiful women, though the west-coast cities don't have so many single ones while the northeast ones do.
For the barf bag, you'll have to go to basically any rural area or conservative city. Women in those places tend not to look so great, probably partly because of poverty and partly because of terrible diet and also bad habits (smoking, etc.). The big-city liberal wome
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This. Go to Chicago's Oak Street Beach on a nice summer day. Or hang out in front of the old Water Tower. There's a reason Playboy Magazine started in Chicago.
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NYC is full of beautiful (and frequently single) women. In fact, every liberal-ish major US city is full of beautiful women
SF is not. Barf bag is mandatory here.
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Well given the huge surplus of single males in the Bay Area, I would imagine all the beautiful women there are taken.
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For the edification of the Slashdot community, here is one of the women that's on his list of "hot conservative women":
"Debbie Schlussel"
https://blogomatica.files.word... [wordpress.com]
Here's another woman on his list demonstrating how hot conservative women are (trigger warning: If you're heterosexual, this photo may make your nuts shrivel up permanently):
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1793... [huffpost.com]
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Look, if it makes you feel better to think conservative women are better-looking, that's fine.
But don't invoke "science". :
Maybe you somehow missed the word "politicians".
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Maybe you somehow missed the word "politicians".
Could you please highlight the word "politicians" in that sentence from the article, because I don't see it:
The more gender-atypical the woman, in fact, the more likely she is to vote Democrat.
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I don't have a "hometown". I'm talking about my own personal experience in living in a bunch of places and dating in all of them.
There's also plenty of articles about the relative distribution of singles in different cities around the country. It's no secret that the Bay Area and Seattle have a large surplus of single men, and NYC has a large surplus of single women.
where men are men, women are also men, and .... (Score:2, Interesting)
Its pretty obvious what is happening here.
Extrapolating from good old 'where men are men, women are also men, and children are FBI agents' we can safely assume this is an FBI sting operation aiming to lure Snowden with some juicy ass photos into leaving Russia. FBI went one step further preemptively asserting their answer to obligatory TITS or GTFO.
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Women seem to like men who do dangerous things (Score:4, Interesting)
I might have to do something like that... but must be something that doesn't land me in jail
Leak these? (Score:2)
Your supporters from anonymous and the people at 4chan would be grateful.
"I'm tired of seeing pictures of boobs"... (Score:2)
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Chelsea, ... (Score:4, Funny)
But in Snowden's interview with John Oliver... (Score:4, Informative)
...he told you that "you shouldn't change your behaviour" in response to government surveillance. Clearly, that message has gotten across. :)
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
LOL (Score:2)
Modern Problems. Oh, to have such a burden.
Look ladies, I'm happily married, but feel free to send me your provocative and/or tasteful nudes on the off chance I'll dump my lovely wife and jump ship to be with you*.
I mean, you DO have some greater-than-zero chance to get with a fine, vintage model like me, and (statistically speaking) probably a better chance than you do cold-calling Edward Snowden, so what the heck, give it a shot. You've nothing to lose and little to gain!
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*terms and conditions may apply
Overinterpreting Tweets (Score:2)
Some girls find it fun to send him nudes or ask for snapchat. so what?
The NSA might see the nudes. So what? Will they send them around the net? propbably not.
clickbait article.
Not to mention they're all honeypots (Score:2)
Yeah the FBI seeing the photos is probably a non-issue since a large number of them are probably honeypots in the first place. It's a product of how much contempt they have for this man that they think one of them will eventually work.
HEADLINE:
Snowden caught in honeypot while stepping out on his girlfriend.
God, wouldn't they love that?
Only one reason to say "don't send me nude pics" (Score:2)
The reward of heroism (Score:2)
Among the rewards of heroism is the love of women.
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Even I am at a loss to explain this one...
Dice is just channeling "Men In Black".
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And from the real source (vice):
On Wednesday, however, Snowden slid into my DMs with a response: "I can neither confirm nor deny it means exactly what you think it means."
http://motherboard.vice.com/re... [vice.com]
That's like fourth hand reporting.
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I find it sickening that my government employs thousands of people like him to violate our civil rights and these people are living the high life in places like Hawaii.
Yes and no. The pay scale for employees of intelligence agencies is not very high; you won't find a lot of people making more thank $80,000 in the CIA or NSA, unless they complement it with stuff like speaking engagements or book deals.
For subcontractors the salary is higher but there's less benefits. In his last job before working for the Russians, Edward Snowden made $122,000 a year. Once you put aside money for pension, co-pays and such, it's not hookers, coke & vegas money. It's more like, good car
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If the Russians didn't already know everything an external contractor in Hawaii could get then they were not trying.
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I used to work in a large manufacturing organization where janitors and cafeteria workers were outsourced. It was expensive, and they were doing a terrible job, and it would have been incredibly easy and cost-effective to do it in-house.
I was in good terms with someone in HR and I finally found out from her why they kept the outsourcing: working around a clause in the collective agreement that required proportional layoffs. If the company had 800 production workers and 200 support workers (supervisors, mana
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Another reason for so much outsourcing is if you are a publicly traded company. One of the metrics they use to evaluate stock is profit (or EBITA) per employee, to show efficiency. So less FTEs with only slightly less profit shoots this up.
Yeah, let's look out for stockholder value so they don't sue us.
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Yes, I used to work at a steelworks that did that. Within five years of using that metric and gaming it by using contractors the previously profitable place in real terms was shut down and the seagull management flew off to shit all over something else. Funny thing is it terms out that using unskilled staff that cost three times as much as skilled ones reduces efficiency, and the unskilled staff tend to die
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First, they don't cut back.
Second, it's an insanely common situation for such contracts to be handed out as rewards to cronies. At best it's a retirement gift to funnel money into the ex-employees small business.
I'll leave the many others as an exercise - remember we are talking about a place run by egotistical losers who get Star Trek set designers to do office layouts and who came in via the political fast track instead of being promoted from within intelligence.
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we are talking about a place run by egotistical losers who get Star Trek set designers to do office layouts
I didn't know that. I just googled it and wtf. Sad part is that it's not even cool. My cousin's basement is more hi-tech and he earns like $45,000 a year.
I mean, did you see the Commander's Console? It looks like they took the seat from a 2003 Toyota Tercel and bolted it on a freezer that was painted silver. All the furniture around looks like stuff they bought from a failed bakery.
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites... [zerohedge.com]
Fuck that guy.
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I have no sympathy for that kind of management and believe that it's destroying, if it hasn't already destroyed, the workplace.
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Funny thing is, most of the time on the days after a layoff people had to work overtime because the company mistakenly let too many workers go.
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Re: Snowden: Wasn't he an employee of an agency that contracted with the govn't, not an independent contractor himself? And still, in whatever case, I can imagine the exorbitant amount that the middleman contracting company was charging the govn't.
Yes. He was making $122,000 as an employee of a consulting firm. Right there's it's a red flag: people with a solid resume don't go in consulting for other people because that's getting the worst of both world:
-> If you're an employee in the public sector you get shit pay and a dysfunctional work environment, but at least you get gold-plated benefits.
-> As a self-employed contractor working for public sector clients you get awesome money but you suffer the bad work environment.
-> As an employee of
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Yes. He was making $122,000 as an employee of a consulting firm. Right there's it's a red flag: people with a solid resume don't go in consulting for other people because that's getting the worst of both world:/quote.
Now that's a bit of a generalization. The gov't contracts out a lot of work. And I have several friends who work for firms contracted to do gov't work. Sure, the firm takes the majority of the ABSOLUTELY LUDICROUS rate, but that leaves a good chunk left. And they couldn't get those contract directly,
Not saying some aren't as you put it, but contracting for the gov't is a real thing that solid people do.
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Not saying some aren't as you put it, but contracting for the gov't is a real thing that solid people do.
Working on a government gig as a subcontractor makes sense, even if the consulting firm that places you there takes a 25% cut. It's as an employee of that consulting firm that it makes no sense because they give you shit money.
Anyone with a decent resume will open their incorp and subcontract, not become a rental employee. That's why I'm saying it's a red flag for Snowden.
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And for some reason the middlemen are all very well connected politically when they get the contracts, sometimes as very obvious rewards for helping with political campaigns. That among other things is why the Chinese are too busy laughing to reply when we accuse them of corruption - very s
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Either way the political get rich quick scheme for a city of building a casino is looking a bit stupid at the moment. Why go to the back of beyond when Vegas and Macau are not filled to capacity?
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Those in politics would support their wallets instead of a democratic China so long as the cash reserves continue.
Re:Complete article below: (Score:5, Funny)
Would you leak nudes to Edward Snowden? Yes / No
I approve of his actions. Why would I want to inflict upon him pics of a large, nude, hairy man?
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> I approve of his actions. Why would I want to inflict upon him pics of a large, nude, hairy man?
1. Because even large hairy men are sexy to someone?
2. More importantly: Its being monitored.
I want to encourage every person out there.... if you approve of Snowden, then fight asymetrically!
Every hairy dick pic you send him is one hairy manpole for ed snowden sure, but how many spy agencies monitor his communications and must ALSO see your cock?
Think of the big picture.....send hairy cock to snowden for gr
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And like we care what you care?
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It's not even news for nerds!
Are you kidding? This is about women getting naked and sending pics of themselves to a geek.
This is awesome!
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BIE? EIP!
Re:I'm tired too (Score:5, Insightful)
I think it is to show how poor woman are at making good decisions. A guy like him without the notoriety would be on the ignore list for women. But he showed he is a dangerous guy who is on the edge of getting killed means he is prime material.
Re:I'm tired too (Score:4, Insightful)
I think it is to show how poor people are at making good decisions
FTFY, because we all know men are purely rational when it comes to women, right?
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Like this: http://www.sodahead.com/united... [sodahead.com]
Or this: http://www.businessinsider.com... [businessinsider.com]
etc.
Yeeez. That Snowdens GF?? Bingo. ... (Score:2)
With a girlfriend like that it surely makes exile easyer to bear. ... Gosh is she cute and sexy. That video has me breathing shallower. And envying the man ... for his girlfriend that is. ... He deserves her. I hope the f*cks his brains out regularly and gives him a good time. He deserves it.
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Someone needs to do a photoshop pic with Hillary dressed as the Emperor and grinning evilly while doing Force lightning.
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There's not a lot of Photoshop to do...
http://media1.popsugar-assets.... [popsugar-assets.com]
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Yes, there is: the hood and the Force lightning are missing. Other than that, perfect.
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He is an enemy of the United States.
Snowden is an enemy of the finacialist ruling clique of the United States. But he is a friend of the American people.