{"id":79349,"date":"2018-06-08T03:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T10:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/edward-snowden-the-people-are-still-powerless-but-now-theyre-aware"},"modified":"2018-06-11T11:11:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T18:11:41","slug":"edward-snowden-the-people-are-still-powerless-but-now-theyre-aware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/edward-snowden-the-people-are-still-powerless-but-now-theyre-aware","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden: \u2018The people are still powerless, but now they\u2019re aware\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/edward-snowden-the-people-are-still-powerless-but-now-theyre-aware.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Developers at major technology companies, outraged by the Snowden disclosures, started pushing back. Some, such as those at WhatsApp, which was bought by Facebook a year after the story broke, implemented their own encryption. Others, such as Yahoo\u2019s Alex Stamos, quit rather than support further eavesdropping. (Stamos is now the head of security at Facebook.) <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Five years after historic NSA leaks, whistleblower tells the Guardian he has no regrets.<\/p>\n<p>Mon 4 Jun 2018 13.00 EDT Last modified on Tue 5 Jun 2018 04.46 EDT.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jun\/04\/edward-snowden-people-still-powerless-but-aware\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jun\/04\/edward-snowd...-but-aware<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developers at major technology companies, outraged by the Snowden disclosures, started pushing back. Some, such as those at WhatsApp, which was bought by Facebook a year after the story broke, implemented their own encryption. Others, such as Yahoo\u2019s Alex Stamos, quit rather than support further eavesdropping. (Stamos is now the head of security at Facebook.) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1625,1412,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption","category-privacy","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79528,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79349\/revisions\/79528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}