Please consider the significance of Al Gore's claim in 1999 to having taken "the initiative in creating the Internet" in light of Q's references to APACHE and SecureDrop.

(See Snopes and Wikipedia for background on Gore's statement.)

Older Anons will remember the Internet had been around for awhile, then the public suddenly discovered it in the early 1990s during the Clinton/Gore administration. Internet and related technologies spread like wildfire over the next two decades.

Tech Anons will know, too, that all the core technologies of the Internet were incubated by the U.S. government. The first web browser (Mosaic/Netscape; released 1993) and the first major open-source web server (APACHE HTTP; released 1995), for example, were both developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Point being there is some truth in Al Gore's claim.

I speculate that APACHE HTTP has or had a backdoor which permits surveillance. The implication would be that the Clinton/Gore administration was responsible for rolling out the world-wide electronic public surveillance system for the first time.

The significance is not merely historical. It connects the Clintons to New World Order initiatives. (Think Hillary's health care program of the time, Bill's technology leaks to China, etc.)