Who Is Publishing NSA and CIA Secrets, and Why?
I think it&#x27;s not out of the question it&#x27;s multiple motives, too. It&#x27;s not impossible someone chose to grab some stuff due to moral objections, and is feeding the information through some channels that themselves have their own motivations. I&#x27;ve seen accusations that Snowden had that happen to him with his documents, for instance, by which I don&#x27;t mean that I do or do not believe that, just that it&#x27;s not inconceivable. You don&#x27;t necessarily need a single atomic motive for this to be happening.<p>If so, that raises other interesting questions, such as: &quot;What is the largest, most powerful possible intelligence agency that would not be virtually 100% guaranteed to leak so hard that non-trivial stuff would even get into the open air?&quot; We spend a lot of time on HN worrying about how powerful a police state could become with modern technology, but it&#x27;s possible that that very power could itself be a quantitative change and that an entity powerful enough to be that strong of a police state might also virtually inevitably tear itself apart with internal struggles. I mean, that would still suck for those not in the middle (though it sucks for them too; one of the reasons I really hate police states is that really <i>nobody</i> is happy, not even the people with power), but it may imply that it is intrinsically less stable of an arrangement than many of us fear.<p>I&#x27;m just musing here for other people to bounce their ideas off of, not particularly proposing a concrete idea here. But is it just me, or in the last 10 years have we not been seeing a slowly ramping rate of outright-public leaks like this? What if it&#x27;s not a fluke, but a fundamental attribute of the current technology landscape and psychological makeup of humans at scale?