Ο Edward Snowden now holds a permanent seat in the pantheon of the national security leakage service along with Daniel Ellsberg, Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning.
The former employee of the US National Security Service (NSA), Edward Snowden became a front page around the world when thousands of confidential records were leaked describing the NSA spy programs in detail.
Today it has been a year now, since then its records have begun Edward Snowden, to be published by The newspaper Guardian which first revealed that the NSA was collecting the phone data of millions of Americans. But what did we really learn from this story?
The revelations
Τα κωδικά ονόματα των τεράστιων προγραμμάτων συλλογής δεδομένων της NSA είναι πλέον γνωστά σε όλους - PRISM, Tempura, Upstream, XKeyscore.
Το πρόγραμμα που ονομάζεται PRISM, ήταν το πρώτο που διέρρευσε από τον Snowden μέσω του Glenn Greenwald τον Ιούνιο του 2013, και αποκάλυπτε την συλλογή δεδομένων απευθείας από τους διακομιστές των μεγαλυτέρων εταιρειών στο διαδίκτυο - όπως τη Google, τη Yahoo, το Facebook και τη Microsoft.
Public opinion came to a truth that everyone suspected but nobody wanted to believe. The refusal was made with evidence that testified it.
Along with the above, we learned that the NSA had entered our homes, not only through our computers but also by monitoring billions of phone calls, text messages, emails post officeυ, συνομιλίες και pictures. All files are stored in the huge data-centers of the service. The news about XKeyscore confirmed that an NSA network of 500 servers around the world is being used to store data collected from the internet and telecommunications communications of almost every one of us.
Secret Service programs leaked by Snowden show NSA working with other agencies espionages, such as GCHQ, of Great Britain and others in France, Germany, Israel and Australia.
The above leaks were the beginning. A storm followed and according to the information there are still too many unpublished data.
But the question that arises is: why are not the other files published? Is it a matter of national security? If it is a question of national security, who decides to do so, or to make it better, who defines it? Is there free and unbiased journalism?
According to his words Edward Snowden there are millions of files on some encrypted discs that have not been published.
What we learned from him Edward Snowden and what do we continue to learn? what have we not learned and what we will never learn?
The reaction
After the first publications that brought the first cold shower, the romantics who believed that with an OpenSSL were safe, reactions began. We have been surprised by the technology companies to deny their participation in the NSA programs, and it has always been known that they have to deliver data with a public prosecutor's order.
There has been a general reaction to NSA espionage by companies, organizations, politicians and diplomats. So what; The measures taken by Obama were ridiculous and of course they cannot stand in the way of the agency's global espionage activities.
Companies like Google, Yahoo and Facebook say they are taking steps to offer stronger encryption. Ultimately the end-user to whom to trust? One thing is for sure, the 1990 Internet is no longer there. 2013-2014 brought us to the reality, or better, to a part of the truth. There is no security. All the information traveling on the internet do not know where they end up. Encryption seems to be a myth rather than a myth with a happy ending.
What we learned we probably knew before. The secret services will continue their work. But this places responsibilities on me. because if we assume that we can not trust our data to any service, what do we go on and do? Waiting for the next one Edward Snowden, is rather a very passive reaction.
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