<i>The Snowden narrative needs to be questioned.</i><p>Oh for goodness sake. Reality is too boring for you? You could engage with the real campaign that EFF and Snowden and others are trying to get going, or you could wander off and make up some other story that protects you from having to do anything.<p><i>Since when does an NSA contractor working from home in Hawaii get VPN access to all the government secretes?</i><p>Since the NSA got reliant on huge networks that aren&#x27;t understood by their own management and they needed to hire in techies to keep it running.<p>Essentially: big organisations have to choose between (a) crippling levels of security that prevent them from getting anything done or (b) getting things done with a small risk of leaks.<p>(a) is pointless so everything is heading for (b) and thats why every major news story of the last few years and the next few decades is going to be based around leaks.