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dumbphone  ·  3791 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: xkeyscorerules100.txt

I not sure this comes from Snowden documents actually.

Cory Doctorow, writing for BoingBoing here stated:

    Another expert said that s/he believed that this leak may come from a second source, not Edward Snowden, as s/he had not seen this in the original Snowden docs; and had seen other revelations that also appeared independent of the Snowden materials.

Bruce Schneier agreed with Doctorow's assessment in this article.

On the other hand, this email in the TOR dev mailing list correlates info in the rules file to known changes in tor infrastructure and suggests that the rules file would have been up to date when Snowden was contacting Greenwald.

In any case the provenance of this file isn't established and I didn't see anything in the article that confirmed its authenticity.