The NSA maintains its files on us; now “a group of Canadian researchers and journalists” have turned the tables. They’ve “built the world’s first fully-indexed and searchable online database of Edward Snowden’s leaked National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance documents. … The Snowden archive currently has 386 files, including the NSA’s classified documents, glossaries of the codenames used by the agency and news stories related to the leaks. … The idea was sparked by a University of Toronto student who became frustrated by the difficulty of hunting for bits and pieces of the leaked files that were scattered around the Internet … ‘What we’re hoping this database can do is start to piece together the bigger picture,’ Laura Tribe, CJFE national and digital programs lead,…[said]. ‘We tried to make this the most robust, searchable database possible so that no matter what you’re looking for, you can find the content.’”
So go for it! Search a fraction of the NSA’s secrets as it rifles all of yours. Our Canadian heroes “[hope] the database will help the public use Snowden’s revelations to become more aware of how governments are spying on citizens.” Let me add a further hope: that “the public” will advance from awareness to utter contempt and then to abolition of the State.
1:17 pm on March 12, 2015
