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The article says "A decade after Snowden exposed NSA’s mass surveillance in cooperation with the British GCHQ, only about 1% of the documents have been published – but three major facts can finally be revealed thanks to a doctoral thesis in applied cryptography by Jacob Appelbaum" But...does that mean that Snowden only made the articles accessible to journalists, and not accessible to the public, like on a wikileaks type server?