No, because he is without remorse and his ideology doesn't support reparations for his crimes.
If Mr Ulbricht were so motivated to make amends for his actions, he would offer solutions for reducing suffering. Instead, with simplistic ideals, he proposes to redo social media in a manner that has no clear pathway to reduce suffering. It is, at best, haphazard.
The dangerous wire analogy doesn't hold. Very different situations.
Personal demons are similar. Make reparations for pain and suffering.
We dismiss a felon's voice at the polls for life. I don't agree entirely with this as they did their time, but that's not the case here.
In this case, Mr Ulbricht is doing time, doesn't mea culpa (quite the opposite -- he and his supporters think he's a victim), and is now commenting on yet another technical topic (first was bitcoin) the impacts of which are detrimental to him in his predicament.
If he were to have been an ex-con at the time of writing who took responsibility for his actions, I may have had a different opinion.
Not sure why a convicted felon away for life gets any credibility in the tech community. Yes, many in these parts think he was just "running a website", including his mom. Tells you a thing or two about his upbringing.
Mr Ulbricht was a kingpin drug trafficker and I really couldn't care less for his technical opinions. If he were to take a modicum of responsibility for his actions, then perhaps there would be a pathway for him to have a voice in the community. His vote is irrelevant until then.
Do tools such as Ionic allow platform-specific native code overrides for such scenarios? Is interop with the cross platform codebase infeasible in these cases?
One might expect to be able to override and "go native" as needed.
As it turns out, a few days ago, I was reminiscing with an old school DJ about sample-based music production. My argument was that all one needs is a DAW and youtube-dl. It seems that the timing of my argument was rather inauspicious.
McDonalds declined to retain me as a consultant when I reported issues with their Mary AM Johnson API holes. I probably should have marketed myself in a more formal fashion.
No mass surveillance is similarly irresponsible, albeit in an entirely different manner, to unchecked mass surveillance.
The sweet spot is to have mechanisms and institutions in place to adequately "watch the watchers watching the watchers". Instead, we get judges putting on a dog and pony show, while our IC leaders were originally forced to lie or mislead about the secret programs.
Americans are wildly spoiled. We now have, by far, the most libertarian policies regarding E2EE, on a global basis. Take a bow, Ed, this is all your doing.
He could have stolen only the docs related to domestic surveillance. Snowden could have handed only those docs to his media handlers who would then vet them with the IC.
The IC does their job keeping us safe precisely so we don't have to concern ourselves with things such as:
* Which servers in China we are hacking
* Foreign surveillance
* Joint CIA/NSA programs
Damage is ongoing. Relationship with foreign leaders, for instance, has suffered irreparable damage.
Snowden's very existence as a propaganda mouthpiece does align with Putin's long term active measures. His greatest value is in undermining internal confidence in our institutions that protect our freedom.
Power vacuums get filled. NSA was largely torched to the ground. Good or bad, there was a counterbalance between big tech and the NSA that is now gone. SV snatched up the power.
Everyone connected to big tech, Graham and company, stood to gain immensely from Snowden's treason against his country. Naturally, "hero" is the word. I'd speculate that Snowden singlehandedly added trillions in value to big tech.
Due to the extent of mil intelligence docs stolen, and since the domestic programs deployed were lawful at the time, whistleblower is a disingenuious title for Mr. Snowden.
Putting aside domestic disclosures, it's difficult to see how the scope of stolen materials merits praise or euphemistic titles. Snowden is a fugitive. As it pertains to the majority of what was stolen, he is not a whistleblower, but a thief.
Had Snowden simply revealed unconstitutional domestic mass surveillance programs, perhaps he could be pigeonholed as a whistleblower.
If Mr Ulbricht were so motivated to make amends for his actions, he would offer solutions for reducing suffering. Instead, with simplistic ideals, he proposes to redo social media in a manner that has no clear pathway to reduce suffering. It is, at best, haphazard.
The dangerous wire analogy doesn't hold. Very different situations.
Personal demons are similar. Make reparations for pain and suffering.