This 100%. Snowden was so important because he brought this stuff mainstream. But, let&#x27;s be completely clear that it was already mostly known in bits and pieces and many leaders in tech had already been sounding the alarms.<p>I am in no way downplaying Snowden or what he prompted everyone to do, but everyone knew it was happening. They just weren&#x27;t motivated or felt no one else cared.<p>Its kind of like trying to get people to use PGP for normal communications: You understand why, and they might too, but they don&#x27;t care enough. So it doesn&#x27;t get done.