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The Intercept Releases First Batch Of New Docs Leaked By Snowden (theintercept.com)
executioner quotes a report from The Intercept: The Intercept's first SIDtoday release comprises 166 articles, including all articles published between March 31, 2003, when SIDtoday began, and June 30, 2003, plus installments of all article series begun during this period through the end of the year. Major topics include the National Security Agency's role in interrogations, the Iraq War, the war on terror, new leadership in the Signals Intelligence Directorate, and new, popular uses of the internet and of mobile computing devices. You can download this batch directly here, or download the documents via Github.
How about instead of this batch release nonsense we dump all of the data and get the public outrage all of the way at once, instead of spoonfeeding it to the masses at the controlling entities' behest?
The public's collective memory is short.
The thinking is that when you keep it in the news, no one will forget.
Of course, that can backfire when everyone becomes numb to the stories.
Ahh, yeah, so it's okay to use public outrage as a tool when it serves causes you believe in. Got it.
I don't think it's quite accurate to say everybody thought this was going on. There have been studies showing that people are changing their behaviors online and are becoming more afraid to speak out on controversial issues as a result of the revelations. It would be more accurate to say that most simply don't care or think it's okay as opposed to the minority that do.
Before the leaks: "LOL stupid conspiratard thinking the govt spies on everyone, put your tinfoil hat back on" (don't tell me you never saw sentiments like this)
After the leaks: "Well duhh, of course the govt spies on everyone stupid. Everybody knows that, that's been common knowledge 4evar!"
TL;DR there's always assholes saying "nothing to see here".
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
No. Everyone who used to argue with me about FBI and NSA spying has been very sheepish post Snowden. I don't even have to say "I told you so." And none of them want to defend the lies and subterfuge fed to the press by the security apparatus. None of them think electronic messages should be exempt from privacy and they don't really want to sneak off to the park and make sure they aren't followed to exercise what they were told in grade school was somehow "inalienable." We've been alienated. People care deeply, but they do not think the solution is within gov't. The solution being pursued is to up the game in the private sector. Movements like Let's Encrypt, Apple defaulting to secure crypto, WhatsApp deploying crypto, etc. Once people no long think the NSA is protecting them, they seek solutions outside their reach. They already know the agency is immune to Congressional oversight.
If you don't care, it suggests that you have no interest in computer security, which in turn suggests that this is probably the wrong forum for you.
Snowden's revelations have had an absolutely massive worldwide effect on everyone in the industry, from the lowliest techie with an interest in their personal privacy and machine security, all the way up to the largest megacorps like Google and Apple. What's more, it has dramatically altered the encryption landscape in everyday computing, focused many developer minds on cryptography, and made TLS universal.
To hear someone say "Nobody cares" is really kinda funny. While funny, the remark has no factual basis.
Yes, you can, idiot boy.
It is valuable to know that the NSA was tracking every phone number dialed in America. Who called who.
And yet, nobody was killed because we found out the NSA was doing this.
Hell, the NSA thinks MAYBE all these phone numbers assisted with 2 terrorist related events. At least, that's what they told Congress, under oath.
Of course, the FBI is going "whee!"
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People do care. Privacy has become a selling point. Without Snowden I doubt that both major mobile operating systems would be going to unbreakable encryption by default, and strongly resisting attempts by governments and law enforcement to create back doors.
The internet has changed a lot since Snowden. Encryption is a lot more common now. There is a sense of urgency that everything should be encrypted, from the most mundane web site to all communications. Look at the number of encrypted chat apps that exist now, and how most of the popular ones have implemented encryption.
We always knew that GCHQ worked closely with the NSA, but he revelation that they are basically a subsidiary and guilty of many millions of crimes was still quite a shock to most people. It has lead to legal challenges and a proposed change in the law to make what they are doing legal, which has brought attention to the issue and a lot of on-going debate about it.
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