[diodesign]

"But why do they reveal it?"

Lewis Page, the editor, noted in the comments section:

"The [UK] government have made it plain that in their view not only foreign powers (ie probably Russia and others) have full access to the Snowden leaks, but quite possibly 'non state actors' also. In other words the only people who don't know this are the general public.

"And given the colossal automated penetration that NSA/GCHQ are achieving worldwide without anybody being much the wiser, it seemed to us that the public should know - as there's no further intelligence hit for UK.gov to take, by its own analysis."

[igravious]

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