Tough talk from someone who can't even be bothered to use PGP. There are lots of people doing real good out there, like Moxie Marlinspike with BitHub, the kickstarter audit of TrueCrypt, and work in the CAB forum and the W3C on SSL and browser security. Glenn is just a talking head at this point, someone who ferried a few hard drives from point A to point B. He shouldn't be respected as someone who knows squat about the subject matter.
He's a journalist, and he's doing a great job as a journalist. He never claimed to be an expert in crypto, but he knows more about the governments' abuses of power and the media's pandering than you do.
Did you hear the applause when he talked about PGP being very difficult to use? Everyone in the room agreed with him on that.
It's fine that you didn't watch the talk, but you shouldn't comment pretending that you did. I think you just wanted to take a shot at Greenwald. He made some interesting points about PGP and OTR. Both of which he uses now.
We all get it that you think very highly of yourself, and belittling Glenn without actually having listened to his talk reinforces your feeling of superiority, but we don't care, so why don't you keep it to yourself?
