I've watched the Twitter InfoSec crowd slowly turn from:
supportive -> ambivalent -> hostile.
Guess exposing XKeyScore, PRISM, TEMPORA really pissed off the hypocrites in the US.
The intersection in the Venn diagram between Intel and Infosec community is substantial. And quite a number of accounts directly linked to US IC influence decisions of who is allowed to have a voice at DefCon and BlackHat.
The same happened with public support for Assange.
Nobody talks about the retaliation by proxy against Ola Bini. They should.
If you stand up for them better prep yourself to either get labeled a tankie or get character assassinated¹ by some nutjob with pink hair and overly strong feelings about pronouns. Which is an odd hostile spectrum to find oneself in. Jacob Applebaum was especially torn down hard using manufactured content of blog posts of "rape victimes" coming forward. And until today he remains so:
¹ > In May 2013, Snowden was permitted temporary leave from his position at the NSA in Hawaii, on the pretext of receiving treatment for his epilepsy.[10] In mid-May, Snowden gave an electronic interview to Poitras and Jacob Appelbaum which was published weeks later by Der Spiegel.[119] -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden
The intersection in the Venn diagram between Intel and Infosec community is substantial. And quite a number of accounts directly linked to US IC influence decisions of who is allowed to have a voice at DefCon and BlackHat.
The same happened with public support for Assange.
Nobody talks about the retaliation by proxy against Ola Bini. They should.
If you stand up for them better prep yourself to either get labeled a tankie or get character assassinated¹ by some nutjob with pink hair and overly strong feelings about pronouns. Which is an odd hostile spectrum to find oneself in. Jacob Applebaum was especially torn down hard using manufactured content of blog posts of "rape victimes" coming forward. And until today he remains so:
¹ > In May 2013, Snowden was permitted temporary leave from his position at the NSA in Hawaii, on the pretext of receiving treatment for his epilepsy.[10] In mid-May, Snowden gave an electronic interview to Poitras and Jacob Appelbaum which was published weeks later by Der Spiegel.[119] -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden