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This is bang on. The tech details matter - a lot. Thought I'd add to the discussion by linking/quoting from this piece from wired UK http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/11/prism-powerpo...

"To us geeks, the tech methods, of course, are the most interesting part. Snowden evidently wanted the entire presentation published, at least at one point in his discussions with the Post's Gellman. On 24 May, "Snowden asked for a guarantee that the Washington Post would publish -- within 72 hours -- the full text of [the] PowerPoint presentation," Gellman wrote on 9 June, in a fascinating account of his interactions with the whistleblower. "I told him we would not make any guarantee about what we published or when."




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