Why All the Snowden Docs Should Be Public: An Interview with Cryptome

There are 2 different things that the author is conflating:

- Snowden has decided to slowly diffuse the documents piece by piece to keep the public interested in the matters, even years after the initial impact. This is crucial in changing the masses mindset: ecolo stuff has taken 40 years to be something people care about.

- Snowden and his partners have decided to exclude some information because reasons. They have taken an editorial role in the story.

While I agree with the author that the 2nd point can be problematic (because they are their own judges of what is good and what is bad, and that is not up to them to decide), the 1st point is really useful if you want to have a real impact.

So I'm globally positive about what Snowden has done, because the important thing here is for everyone to realize the massive surveillance on populations in direct contrast to our values. The exact details are interesting, but not as much.

Thanks for this post! Really enjoyed the article. I've always been a regular reader of cryptome, but I really wish they would re-enable their RSS feed as I would love to have this come to my feedly. PS: If anyone from cryptome is reading, I would pay for this service. Seriously.