[hyper_reality]

Here's an example of purple prose that has nothing to do with the complexity of cybersecurity, from his first post on Substack (https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/lifting-the-mask):

> Though my relationship to time fluctuates, the gravamen of my disclosures remains constant. In the past eight years, the depredations of surveillance have merely become more entrenched, with the capabilities that used to be the province of governments now in the hands of private companies, too, which employ them to track and tether us and attenuate our freedoms.

[anon_cow1111]

I don't know, this is exactly how I would talk if I wanted to poison the data of anyone trying to run word-use analysis against my public posts. On anonymous channels I'd probably type like an 8-year-old.