Quite a lot of smoke has been blown about Snowden's operation, including the latest court decision and report about stopping terrorist attacks.
First, NSA never accurately discloses tthe effect of attacks, leaks, disclosures, public service announcements, job applications, FOIA responses, answers to inquiries, historical accounts, participations in conferences, educational programs, secrecy agreements, lectures, memoires of ex-officials, the gamut. Second, the Snowden operation's history, reporting, lawsuits,, books, articles, lectures, speeches, movies, interviews have multiple gaps, perforations, speculations, wishful thinkings, disinformation, lbald-faced lies, fictions, diversions,, pardon advocacies and possibilities, the gamut. Third, these kind of operations are ancient, repetitive, legendary, taught at spy academies, honed and advanced in the agencies, universities, copied from and fed to allies and opponents,, provided to publicity and media and educational iintitutions, exchanged with contractors and ohter spy agencies, leaked, dropped, hurled, left in bars and backseats and trains and bedrooms and forums and on dead bodies/ implanted on servers and clouds and classified trransmissions (iie, Manning's op and those regularly featured as from unhappy insiders, freedom fighters, natsec specialists, vengeful ex-mates and BFFs). Relevance here is the heavy use of inevitably-failure cryptography for classifying, advancing, promoting and disclosing these deceptions, along with the welter of tools for obscuring, enticing and decorating. Privacy a favorite of the 1990s-2000s. Notably, Jon Callas has recently joined EFF,
