[roger_smith]

The reason the Snowden leaks were such a big deal is because it finally made the general public aware of the spying that is happening en mass. Years before the Snowden release people like myself were called crackpots/tinfoil heads/crazy/etc because we talked about the ability of, and likely practice therein, of the US Gov't to spy on internet communication. Everyone wanted to ignore the data center in Utah and pretend it wasn't a thing. Snowden burst that ignorance bubble

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

OT: I have a hard time believing NK was involved directly with the Sony attack. If the hackers involved were smart, they would have framed it up to LOOK like NK is involved. The fact that NK is now talking about a joint investigation with the US is rather odd. Then again maybe they're doing that to try and throw the US off their trail.


Maybe it's all just a giant marketing campaign to get us talking about the movie. I'm sure when this movie is finally released it will do quite well in the box office. Now that we can't see it, we want to, even if we didn't want to before :p.