8-1 Discussion
IT 412 - Cyberlaw and Ethics
Romyr DelRosario
We did it!! Week 8 and I hope everyone got out of the class as much as I did. It was enjoyable
and very eye opening to say the least.
I'm in the same mindset as a lot of other folks that have weighed in on this topic. Edward
Snowden broke the law albeit he may have had good intentions about it but nonetheless what he did
was illegal. As far as intelligence is concerned, he committed the most egregious acts an intelligence
officer could do and take millions of documents that held national security secrets and made them
available to publish so the whole world could see. There are ways that a whistleblower could go about
exposing the wrongs of what a government agency is doing but to outright steal sensitive information
and then make them available to be published. All the while escaping the country to go to the one only
place that would further incriminate himself and that would be Russia. It all looks bad for Snowden even
though he may have had good intentions but if that was the case, he wouldn't have left the country to
another country without extradition laws. If he truly believes what he did was for the good of the
country, he should have stayed and faced the music and defended what he did not run and hide from the
Iaw. I do think that there might be others like Snowden in the intelligence agency that are still leaking
information out to the public just to keep these agencies from having unfettered access to personal data
that they shouldn't be collecting.