Edward Snowden Tweets Cryptic Code: Was It a Dead Man’s Switch? (sputniknews.com)

68 points by dear 9y ago ↗ HN

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So basically yet another example of Betteridge's law of headlines.

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Also: Consider the source. Sputnik is unreliable and Kremlin-controlled, and whatever analysis they cook up is usually FUD.

[dead] whelp 9y ago ↗

Yup. Don't trust the commies. Trust the NSA instead.

It would be interesting to know what this tweet was really about however

Looks like he typed this: "openssl rand -hex 32" and got himself a nice 128-bit random number.

Probably tapped his yubikey