>David Miranda was found to be carrying tens of thousands of classified UK intelligence documents.
Was he, though? I mean, we all "know" he was carrying secret documents, but have they ever proven that? If the files are encrypted and they can't crack it to prove what those documents were, then we don't know anything. For all we know (and unless there are news reports I haven't seen), Miranda/Greenwald/Poitras could have encrypted a million pictures of Rick Astley, deliberately to see if they could pull the government into abusing it's power.
Not only was he carrying those secret documents, he was also apparently carrying the decryption key written on a piece of paper for those documents. Truly a master of OPSEC and INFOSEC, that guy.
Was he, though? I mean, we all "know" he was carrying secret documents, but have they ever proven that? If the files are encrypted and they can't crack it to prove what those documents were, then we don't know anything. For all we know (and unless there are news reports I haven't seen), Miranda/Greenwald/Poitras could have encrypted a million pictures of Rick Astley, deliberately to see if they could pull the government into abusing it's power.