Julian OliverJulianOliver@mastodon.social
Jul 25, 2026, 1:23 AMWho remembers these slides leaked by Snowden back in 2013, detailing how big players were working as actual "providers" for the US NSA's PRISM program. Not via warrants, but as data sharing partners.
I remember in the 4 yrs before, when @k0a1a & I were lecturing on precisely this, privacy workshops, making interventions to alert people to the risks, we'd be scowled at, sometimes even angrily. Told we were being doomer.
A shiny-eyed tech optimism that aged badly, then forgot about it all
