10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned?
The lengths that the &quot;good guys&quot; will go to in order to spy on the &quot;bad guys&quot; and how they&#x27;ll be lying into their graves about it.<p>You can&#x27;t trust a single word intelligence agencies say. We have no idea what they are collecting, how it is stored, indexed, searched, or used, or how long. They actively deny operations they are currently engaged in, i.e. they <i>lie</i>, at the highest levels.<p>There are only technical limitations imposed by computational resources. Which aren&#x27;t really limitations when they have effectively infinite funding at this point.<p>They&#x27;ve infiltrated hardware; inserted backdoors, not just at telcos, but into privately-developed and owned locations.<p>They consider encryption to be a stumbling block and are willing to <i>intervene to weaken it</i> to serve their purposes.<p>Absolutely shitbirds, all. I don&#x27;t care what their ends are, their means are to create a digital dystopia that simply cannot be trusted. They basically broke tech; usurped it to serve the power structure. And <i>so many</i> people and companies went along with, are going along with, and are enriching themselves by doing so.<p>This future sucks. I hate my own devices.