1. Crypto is broken in the sense that entire notion of trusted
   computing is massively broken and nation states can compromise end
   devices at scale and access plain text via device compromise.
   2. There was a period of time when the Snowden cache was controlled
   primarily by journalists with limited organizational support. Many bad
   things could have happened. It is still mysterious if they did.
   3.It also seems likely that competing services had access to many of
   the same documents as Snowden did. It seems reasonable to assume there
   were more people exfiltrating docs for private benefit than for public
   benefit on the top secret network.
   4. What standard should organizations who handle secret information be
   held to? The Intercept has hired some of top practitioners in the
   field. Is that good enough? Less well funded institutions?
   On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:10 AM, <[1]dan@geer.org> wrote:

      | Glenn Greenwald at The//Intercept on The Sunday Times birdcage
     liner
      | 'reporting' that brought the story to press.
      |
      |
     [2]https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/14/sunday-times-report
     -snowden=
      | -files-journalism-worst-also-filled-falsehoods/
     If Snowden had zero copies and Greenwald/Poitras had the originals,
     then any Russo-Chinese fiddling with those originals was the result
     of having stolen them from Greenwald/Poitras, not Snowden.
     As the world turns,
     --dan

References

   1. mailto:dan@geer.org
   2. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/14/sunday-times-report-snowden=