Snowden distributed encrypted copies of NSA docs around the world

Reporter says several people will unlock trove if "anything happens" to Snowden.

Taking another page out of the WikiLeaks playbook, Edward Snowden has apparently distributed an encrypted copy of at least “thousands” of documents that he pilfered from the National Security Agency to “several people,” according to Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian reporter who first published Snowden’s leaks.

[link to arstechnica.com]