The Snowden Archive Has Been Silent for Seven Years—and No One Will Say Why
What Happened to the Snowden Archive
The last document from the Snowden archive was published on May 29, 2019. Since then, no news outlet, journalist, or institution has released a single document, even though Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras claim they still hold full copies and say there is more to report. The article traces how the archive was distributed, how The Guardian destroyed its hard drives after government pressure, and why publication stopped.
They were willing to compromise and to give editorial control to the state. What are they then? They're stenographers.
- 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.
- anotherhue
I think the real answer is the Overton window shifted to accommodate what was previously scandalous,
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- ericyd
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- 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.)
- WarOnPrivacy
Besides the undisclosed portions of the Snowden archives, I was also disappointed that the Assange/Wikileaks insurance files were never decrypted.