according to flash point intel which monitors the activities, back in february, a new encryption service appeared for users of instant messaging services, including yahoo, msn, aol and google talk. it was aimed at avoiding the very u.s. surveillance that snowden leaked four months later. >> the core al qaeda, hezbollah, people like that. they're pros. they know what they're doing. this probably did not tell them much they didn't already suspect. >> it is just, this whole story is incredible and what they allege is incredible. he said the documents, snowden has them. they're encrypted. he is the one in control of what happens to them. it is kind of ironic that he has them encrypted and the nsa apparently cannot seem to break in? >> well, it is. there is a lot of irony throughout this story. you might wonder how greenwald