In the aftermath of Edward J. Snowden’s revelations about potential mass surveillance, there has been a sharp increase in the use of these “end to end” encryption apps, which render even the company
that owns the app or phone essentially unable to read or hear the communications between the two “end” users.
This time around, for example, there are widespread claims on social media that these leaked documents show that it was the C. I.A.
Since it doesn’t have a means of easy mass surveillance of such apps, the C. I.A.
The media, to its credit, eventually sorts things out — as it has belatedly started to do with the supposed C. I.A.
An accurate tweet accompanying the cache would have said something like, “If the C. I.A.