Security experts like myself have been explaining carefully why Apple is doing the right thing. We kind of have to when Snowden takes it upon himself to generate baseless controversy that offers little logical value.

Beware privacy extremists who incoherently draw a line at children’s rights; somehow they rationalize adults must have absolute “freedom” to deny privacy to others if their victims are children.

Also Snowden calling someone a “Ken doll” and saying “every security expert in the world is screaming themselves hoarse now, imploring Apple to stop” are just over-the-top obvious fallacies.

Either I’m not a security expert or Snowden is an unrepentant liar. I’ll leave it to you gentle reader to decide.

Seriously, what kind of average white man goes around calling another average white man he looks like… a Ken doll? Is that a jealously thing?

Maybe this new Atlantic piece explains why Snowden tends to organize Puritain-like reputational attacks:

Once it becomes clear that attention and praise can be garnered from organizing an attack on someone’s reputation, plenty of people discover that they have an interest in doing so.

Update September 14: research also suggests that Snowden is using a method of playing into crowd ignorance to generate engagement using false pretense.

… popularity bias is more likely to lower the overall quality of content…engagement generates a noisy signal, and the algorithm is likely to amplify this initial noise. Once the popularity of a low-quality item is large enough, it will keep getting amplified…Evidence shows that information is transmitted via “complex contagion,” meaning the more times someone is exposed to an idea online, the more likely they are to adopt and reshare it. When social media tells people an item is going viral, their cognitive biases kick in and translate into the irresistible urge to pay attention to it and share it…We found that players are more likely to like or share and less likely to flag articles from low-credibility sources when players can see that many other users have engaged with those articles. Exposure to the engagement metrics thus creates a vulnerability… The wisdom of the crowds fails because it is built on the false assumption that the crowd is… [rational and intelligent]

Apple showed responsibility and diligence in addressing its own cloud space with distributed technology. It is BETTER than the alternatives and academic THEORY of control tampering doesn’t hold a candle to the REALITY of children abused.

Snowden reveals mostly how his opinions are a bunch of heated emotional rhetoric with little to no ethical or technical substance.

Read his crazy ranting if you must, but if you’re an expert in anything involving analysis and logic beware the awful taste it might leave you with.