[lawnchair_larry]

Justin Schuh is a google chrome security employee and former military/agency contractor with a TS clearance, who hinted that it is basically a REST API on his twitter feed. That's getting pretty close to Arrington's theory.

https://twitter.com/justinschuh

He's a little drunk on the red, white and blue kool-aid, right now and lashing out, but he had some comments earlier.

(make your own interpretation, I don't know him or anything else, that was just my read)

The point about these companies being in the program, and twitter not, is a huge distinguisher. That is essentially proof that there is some automation/privileged access.

[tptacek]

Why, because he asked questions? He's as pissed as you are about the Verizon stuff, but at the same time being smeared by shoddy journalism on the "Prism" stuff.

(Bias on the table, I know Justin).

[lawnchair_larry]

His questions are legit, and I have some of the same questions, but he's also doing the smearing. I don't see him being smeared.

My feeling is also that this guy leaked material that he didn't fully understand, but that it doesn't matter because he could be wrong about all of the fuzzy details and it would still be just as bad.

[dotBen]

Some interesting context, Morgan Mayhem/@headhntr, who he is debating with, is also a Google Security employee.

Interesting given they are having this conversation in public and that their joint-employer (where they both hold a security-orientated role) is directly implicated in this story.