What happened to the Snowden archive

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.

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.

[0]: https://theintercept.com/series/snowden-archive/

I think the real answer is the Overton window shifted to accommodate what was previously scandalous,

I remember when mass surveillance was the worst thing the US government did to its citizens

Snowden got into action because he believed that the US was fundamentally good and needed to get back on track. Over the past 12 years, in the US and around the world, this belief completely vanished. Whatever remains in the archive no longer holds any valuable news.

If you leak it, leak it everywhere!

Eh, the outrage never really materialized into anything worth continuing the leaks. Look at the Epstein files. "They" can just wait it out.

In 2026 these kind of articles must be a bait to receive the latest pegasus-style payload on your honeypot devices.

No matter how many internals are being leaked about five eyes, it's important to realize that there is always someone who benefits from the turmoil and the loss of faith into democratically-supervised institutions.

With technical agencies I'd guess that at least they promoted people based on technical merit and not by how much land ownership their families had 500 yrs ago.

Imagine the abuses the Trump administration is making of US surveillance powers. The market intelligence alone must be netting him billions.

Snowden saw what evil things the USA was doing (spying on everyone!), and he put his career and life on the line to fight for what was right.

And now he lives quietly in Russia.

/S

Considering Snowden was a psyop, there probably was never any Archive.

No real one, at least.

Not like we were told.

You seriously believe he's still just happily living in Russia? Today?

That's insane.