What happened to the Snowden archive

cocodill

If you leak it, leak it everywhere!

anotherhue

I think the real answer is the Overton window shifted to accommodate what was previously scandalous,

bflesch

In 2026 these kind of articles must be a bait to receive the latest pegasus-style payload on your honeypot devices. No matter how many internals are being leaked about five eyes, it's important to realize that there is always someone who benefits from the turmoil and the loss of faith into democratically-supervised institutions. With technical agencies I'd guess that at least they promoted people based on technical merit and not by how much land ownership their families had 500 yrs ago.

pluc

Eh, the outrage never really materialized into anything worth continuing the leaks. Look at the Epstein files. "They" can just wait it out.

BLKNSLVR

The term "responsible disclosure" may no longer have any meaning. "Irresponsible disclosure" for the short term may be equivalent to "responsible disclosure" for the long term. There must be some pretty dark stuff yet to be disclosed, and/or some pretty overt threats for those relatively fearless journalists to close ranks. The "Assange example" may have done its job perfectly.

rtpg

This article linked back to the intercept's snowden archive articles [0], and while this article paints the Intercept in a bad light it lead me to reading a couple of these. While I heard many of the headlines the reporting is very in depth, including a bunch of smaller details worth poking into. I'd recommend people who are interested and who haven't done so yet to just read a couple of these. [0]: https://theintercept.com/series/snowden-archive/

Coeur

Snowden got into action because he believed that the US was fundamentally good and needed to get back on track. Over the past 12 years, in the US and around the world, this belief completely vanished. Whatever remains in the archive no longer holds any valuable news.

firesteelrain

People became ambivalent. Snowden fled eventually to Russia. Some people viewed him less relevant over time as the archive merely trickled out. When he fled to Russia, he looked less like a martyr and more like a national security information leaker or spy like Robert A lot of what sounded extraordinary in 2013 is now baked into everyday discussion like metadata and mass surveillance. He is also available less for interviews because he is in Russia. Basically bigger fish to fry

WarOnPrivacy

Besides the undisclosed portions of the Snowden archives, I was also disappointed that the Assange/Wikileaks insurance files were never decrypted. ref: https://kagi.com/search?q=wikileaks+insurance+torrent

motionlessveloc

So where's Snowden in all this? The article talks at great length about everybody he gave copies to and how they've all gone silent, but obviously he holds copies as well and is not beholden to the US on what he does with them. (Although he is surely on a short leash with his Russian masters as well.)

phendrenad2

"When you get the message, hang up the phone" - Alan Watts I think that everyone read the headlines, internalized it into their worldview, and moved on. Nobody was particularly interested in the sordid details of how the government backdoored everything, they just noted it as fact and moved on. And the world since then has been marked by it. Trump's claim that the DNC spied on him would have been entirely toothless if people weren't primed to believe in such things way back in 2013. In a lot of ways, I think that the Snowden revelations were part of what split the more-or-less unified liberal western world, the Barack Obama "hope & change" "hopecore" Fukuyamian thought, into opposing "leftist" and "trumpian" camps.

corndoge

The funny thing is that now we have people freaking out about Flock. These same people didn't care about Snowden files at the time. In the same vein there are many ALPR companies besides Flock but none of them are getting any heat. Too much is happening for anyone to keep up with it all.

glitchc

Maybe COVID was carefully timed to draw public attention away from the archives. tweaks the peaks on his tin-foil hat

tupapiur77756

ProtetectWordPro lo Desinstalé y me sigue enviando notificaciones

BoggleOhYeah

It was a mistake to flee the US and a bigger mistake to never return. He made it real easy for himself to be written off as a Russian asset.

ivolimmen

My browser (FireFox) shows a warning before opening the site. Followed by a blocked message by my DNS provider because the site is malicious. I'll need to do some network changes if I want to see this.