Snowden can't really sign the files if he has absolutely no access to
   them, which is a critical part of the current story, otherwise we'd be
   right to worry about his proximity to the FSB.

   On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 8:00 PM, John Young <[1]jya@pipeline.com> wrote:

     The Intercept doesn't sign Snowden files, just posts them on
     DocumentCloud.
     Best would be for Snowden to sign them if to be signed, journalists
     do not
     have capability to do it, and most could care less except to blow
     smoke
     about certification. Their lawyers advise to not certify anything
     leaked to
     them, too risky.
     Same procedure by all the journalist-publisher users of
     DocumentCloud; it
     is restricted to journalists-publishers, whom it is well known are
     quite slack
     about comsec, infosec and their customers's privacy in order
     maximize
     profitability of user data for advertizers.
     DocumentCloud, now hosting over 700,000 documents of millilons of
     pages, is rather easily penetrated and tampered with, but that's to
     be
     expected of anything hosted on the cloud which has the world's worst
     security. Worser: logs of accesses are kept and shared to
     authorities.
     Cloud may be the most grievously harmer of privacy today, soon to be
     surpassed by the IoT to exploit user's gullibility with promises of
     oh so
     popular faulty security measures and irresponsibly shady privacy
     policies.

   At 07:05 PM 7/1/2015, stef wrote:

     On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 08:51:39AM +1000, Alfie John wrote:
     > On Thu, Jul 2, 2015, at 07:47 AM, John Young wrote:
     > > Mostly Xkeyscore and more.
     > >
     > > [2]http://cryptome.org/2015/07/nsa-xks-more-intercept-15-0701.7z
     (643MB)
     >
     > Is there an md5sum of that link served via HTTPS?
     i'd rather prefer the intercept itself actually releasing this as a
     signed
     archive.
     --
     otr fp: [3]https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt

References

   1. mailto:jya@pipeline.com
   2. http://cryptome.org/2015/07/nsa-xks-more-intercept-15-0701.7z
   3. https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt