[mpyne]

Yes, this "list of techniques" revealed by the German newspaper Der Spiegel is another thing that will be someday used against Snowden in a U.S. court...

Reason I say that is because as long as we're operating under the assumption that the U.S. will have a branch of the government somewhere that is able to engage in cyber-conflict activities (offensive or defensive), those cyber conflicts will be dependent upon weapons with which to fight them.

Even those who are mistrustful of NSA ever looking at domestic data seem to at least be aware that U.S. networks are constantly under attack (e.g. the Aurora attack on Google, countless attacks on U.S. defense contractors), and that it might be good for the U.S. to have similar capability.

And now the list of secret (cyber-)weapons is out for the whole world to see.

Contrast what would happen if this was a top-secret military weapons program (like, say, a stealth helicopter). How would the spy who leaked it have been treated?

[intslack]

That's assuming that these documents were given to Appelbaum by Snowden or Poitras:

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/417325532980580353

Reading between the lines of the 30C3 talk, and the fact that none of this is credited to Snowden by Der Spiegel, I'd say there is a chance that another "whistleblower" is out there.