Under the name TheTrueHOOHA, Snowden appears to have posted to ArsTechnica, a tech, IT, and geek culture site, hundreds of times over the last 10 years.

The last of his 753 posts, first discovered by Anthony DeRosa, was posted on May 21, 2012, in response to a question about creating a "Dead Man's Switch," a program that would automatically delete a computer's contents if its owner failed to log in periodically. Snowden replies, "You could write one. There are also plenty of orphaned Open Source ones out there you could pick up that need to be finished, if you want a head start." This was the first time he had posted on the forum in six months.

Earlier, in a thread titled "I'm a screwup," he writes, "Join the army. Worked for me." Two days later, in a discussion about emerging industries, he suggests "counterterrorism" is an area that will expand within the next five years.