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I'm kind of split on Snowden. I think he had noble intentions with it, but I worry that he disclosed more than was pertinent to the surveillance state-ish aspects he was trying to blow the whistle on. Do I think he's a traitor? No, only because in my view there really needs to be some malice on the part of the person to be a true traitor. I think he's a well intentioned guy that, again, released too much.

But pretending that the government is totally locked down, I don't think that eliminates the need for tools for whistleblowing. Look at Enron. The ability for truly anonymous leaking wasn't a real thing at that point. Maybe the lady would have released the information externally about the company's practices had there been something in place to allow her to do so with plausible deniability? Maybe the possibility that someone could leak info now with plausible deniability acts as a means to help guide a current company's moral compass?