A decade after Snowden exposed NSA’s mass surveillance in cooperation with the British GCHQ, only about 1 percent of the documents have been published, but three major facts can finally be revealed thanks to a doctoral thesis in applied cryptography by Jacob Appelbaum.

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    10 months ago

    There are rules to being designated a whistle-blower and he didn’t follow them.

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      10 months ago

      He did actually try to go through those channels, unsuccessfully, so he was left with no other choice.

      That’s a far cry from storming the capitol after losing the election to build an even further right state.

      What matters to me is the morality of a rule (unreasonable searches, accepting loss), not the fact that a rule was broken.