revelations

Before the recent whistleblower revelations (2013 - present), there was very little evidence that the NSA was overwhelmingly nefarious.

This is a direct disproof about your claim assuming that you are not deny the validity of the revelations.

Programming this way was, to me, one of the major revelations of learning the functional style.

Just look at recent revelations of medicine such as anti-depressants which perform no better than placebo.

The latest non-Snowden revelations concerning French presidents clearly shows it's not only about collecting metadata.

Not a single person was hurt or injured as a result of the revelations.

The advantage of NSA revelations is that it helps to educate people to form a justified contempt for secret services and governments.

Besides that I want to tackle your thought, that no one should have been surprised by Snowden revelations.

I think almost anyone's email box, if studied attentively, might lead to embarrassing or even illegal revelations.

It probably wouldn't bring any new revelations, but it would definitely give some nice picture content to accompany articles at the very least.

Zaid, you are young and intelligent, you used to record the revelations for the Muhammad, and we know nothing to your discredit.

That pervasive surveillance will be carried out through a continuation of what existed before the Snowden revelations, which was a successful Straussian confection of fake freedom, carefully managed.

I know I'm not making any big revelations here, but the funny thing is there's no "plain text" at all.

There have been others, and the "revelations" of NSA et al actively poking or preventing the closing of holes in all kinds of software and hardware.

Some of the revelations give some really interesting insight in how, what is considered a wildly successful web-startup, is (mis)-managed and some of the back-room dealings happen in the supposedly "meritocratic" valley.

If you have enough meta data you don’t really need content.” For more uncomfortable and scary revelations like this, I recommend checking out Data and Goliath by Bruce Schneier.