* b) Assumption by said governments would be "He's traveling from Germany from Laura Poitras back to Greenwald in Brazil. He's very likely carrying highly sensitive documentation from Snowden"
If i had thousands of documents on how the NSA etc. works i would never ever have anything on my laptop except pictures of my last holiday.
This incident is on the same level as grounding the presidential jet of Bolivia.
A pure and simple power play to intimidate Greenwald and his co-workers/partners. And they want to show "Look we can do with you whatever we want. Remember that !".
Congratulations, you are smarter about documents than Greenwald and partner. Now you just have to get into a position where the next snowden knows this.
People often forget that Greenwald hasn't had any experience in this kind of security. Snowden and others had to work him through setting up GPG and by his own admission he didn't have any knowledge of encryption or anonymisation before the Snowden affair.
If i had thousands of documents on how the NSA etc. works i would never ever have anything on my laptop except pictures of my last holiday.
This incident is on the same level as grounding the presidential jet of Bolivia.
A pure and simple power play to intimidate Greenwald and his co-workers/partners. And they want to show "Look we can do with you whatever we want. Remember that !".