another history spin by oliver stone

Rating: 2/10 (27 January 2017)

Stone does a disservice to future generations by putting his own spin on important national topics. Is there some truth to his stories, yes, but mostly he creates hyperbolic and personal views of his subjects as if he was a comic strip creator, not a movie producer/director. The intelligence community is pretty anal when it comes to security. If you've ever worked in the field they usually put up a lot of fences that prevent getting anything done. That a system engineer is able to steal the information snowden he did is very perplexing but there's been little media attention to this. Anyway, snowden is portrayed as this supremely intelligent hacker with unique access to programs and data. I don't know the real story but what I've seen of snowden in interviews is not very impressive. The bit about putting a towel over his head to protect his passwords had me rolling on the floor. All the tech talk and exaggerated capabilities of the nsa/cia is hogwash made up by someone ignorant of the field. It's just that kind of ignorance that has created a huge industry for consumer data protection and given the green light to the govt to waste billions of dollars every year on useless programs. Consider the DNC hack as an example. This was all human error not some sophisticated tech hack as covered in the media but you bet software security companies will make a mint off this. For a better idea of the truth behind the programs snowden complained about, read bamford's books.