It's always harder for an adversary when he doesn't know your countermeasures, and if Jakob Appelbaum publishes Video footage (or microphone recordings, photogr

It's always harder for an adversary when he doesn't know your countermeasures, and if Jakob Appelbaum publishes Video footage (or microphone recordings, photographs, whatever his fourth or fifth, or sixth alarm system provides) he'd give away this advantage. So currently the Americal agency trying to bug his flat, or probably the german Verfassungsschutz trying to suck up to them, have to guess if they have found and disabled all alarms, or indeed been recorded, or not. That's probably the single thing claimed by the NSA that's true: It helps their opponents (e.g. us Germans) if we know the extent of their wiretrapping and other surveillance. Too bad it was mandatory to publish it to expose their morally wrong (and often illegal) activities.