This from the journalists who check with USG before publishing Snowden documents as Snowden allegedly requires "to avoid harm to the US." Fingerpointing at Putin is obligatory for those working the Broadcasting Board of Governors propaganda beat. The Internet as an unprecedented global spying and propaganda machine has been long noted and carefully exploited by all varieties of spies and media -- used by all governments, but by US first and foremost. For a few years the Information Highway was perceived as a marvelous invention for public education and discourse, even a whiz-bang tool for shaping politics and government, empowering the citizenry. Was long before it was understood to be a gov-com-edu-org hegemon siphoning user data indiscriminately, some openly, some secretly. Encryption has been advocated to maintain citizen privacy and security. That too has been exposed as illusory, but die-hard security promoters will not sacrifice reputation and profits for perpetuating the notion that reliable infosec and comsec are "the best we can do, don't expect absolute security." Meanwhile continuting to rig standards and products to fit USG contracting requirements. Keeping up with these requirements is a top requirement for benefiting from official secrets. Still unrevealed by Snowden is what he did as CIA IT employee for many years before a few months deep undercover NOC as an NSA contractor. At 12:25 AM 9/9/2015, you wrote:
https://theintercept.com/2015/09/08/how-putin-controls-the-russian-internet/ The key paragraph in Andrei Soldatov and Irina Boroganâs new book, The Red Web, comes surprisingly late, after the authors have described the long and ambitious construction of a wide-ranging, all-penetrating Internet surveillance and censorship system in Russia. ... Just as the Soviet system discovered that it did not need to exert total pressure in order to control its population, so the Kremlin has now demonstrated that it does not need to block every byte in order to exert utter dominance over information.