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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.
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.