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That may be, but really... privacy is dead. It is pretty much impossible to not be outed out on every last forum you used to participate in when the whole world has an eye on you. If Ars hadn't done it, someone would have put the pieces together.

In this day and age, to ensure 100% privacy you have to _really_ go out of your way. It's difficult for cypherpunks to pull it off, let alone normal users.

They used publicly available quotes. Are we not allowed to post any negative coverage of Snowden now?

Actually, their approach was pretty reasonable. Another site did it before Ars did in a more tabloid manner.

As a long term, now former subscriber, I have to disagree with you. It's all about the page clicks today, fuck the users.