Before the plan really began, Ren He was also considering one question: should he just throw the data out there, which would save some trouble?
But the problem was, after Edward Snowden exposed the Prism program, although the public was furious and outraged, demonstrations and protests were all carried out.
The government's credibility declined, and the stock market was also disrupted; in theory, this should have had a significant impact.
However, Ren He felt that it was not enough. The Prism program only began to scale back its scope a long time after the exposure; the US government promised not to eavesdrop on the public anymore, etc., yet the program did not truly stop.
Everything was not intense enough since the US government at that time was constantly claiming that some civil liberties had to be sacrificed for the sake of security.
