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by georgedrummond 3858 days ago
This change was committed on Jun 14th 2013, about a week after the PRISM programme had been leaked by Edward Snowden. It is a clear reference to the programme but by this point it was already public knowledge.

I don't know the exact date that Snowden leaked PRISM but it was already being talked about as early as June 6th 2013 in the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...