Snowden&#x27;s strategy, or at least whoever managed information for the team, was super smart about the first 12 weeks.<p>They kept the government mostly in yhe dark about the depth of what they knew, and executed s perfect slow burn.<p>The agency went reeling from one disclosure to the next hastily making up lies and then having them disproved in subsequent releases.<p>Obviously there was more to it, however the main point is that the opposite seems to be true now. Even for receptive people, we just <i>know</i> and it is an effective strategy for the govt to habituate people.<p>Unless the facts surrounding an event gave relavent subdata and a narrative can be brought into focus with the new insight, this isn&#x27;t news it is habituating the public to accept it.<p>I don&#x27;t want to accept it, but simultaneously it is obvious that as noted in the thread, &quot;SIGINT, is gathering signal intrlligience&quot;. So it ends up being a reminder that we have given up s lot, but not bad enough(on the per story basis) to ignite support.<p>Also, I am concerned about the risk we tale decentralizing our data. We may give up the opportunity to have amazing trend analytics and information that may never resurface in the inevitable balkanized system that is to be developed