This was an incredible documentary. I was too young to grasp the whole Snowden thing when it happened so this was a great recap. But I have a question. This all happened, but what was the aftermath of these leaks? It seems people today have completely forgotten about this or don’t really care, so that domain kind of failed. And were there any consequences for the NSA, any legislative intervention, anything at all, or was it just <insert “we’re sorry” south park meme>. Do we have to assume nothing changed and the surveillance is still in place or probably even worse?
the biggest is that everything is now encrypted as standard. letsencrypt came after this and allowed everybody to use industry-standard encryption even for trivial stuff, for free.
back then, even google’s servers communicated with each other in cleartext. sipping off that pipe allowed the siphoning of all data.