Re: @Dave x 3: Now this is just hilarious
" I didn't realise that everything that Mr Snowden 'shared' with us plebs was already public knowledge, clearly I missed that bit...."
Public knowledge and widely known by the public aren't quite the same thing. There was nothing that wasn't public knowledge before. It's something of a litmus test, really: anyone who didn't know the stuff already hadn't known even the most basic things about electronic surveillance; those who'd actually spent years on the subject just shrugged and said 'nothing new here'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
Snowden 'leaked' operation details that put operatives at risk and allowed black hats to hide better, but he didn't tell us anything new about what goes on.
I mean, really, one of his 'revelations' was that spies spy on other countries for their own government. Wow. Who knew that? Dictionaries are classified information, right?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
