&gt;<i>On the whole the effect of Snowden&#x27;s revelation is a big disappointment, I thought far more would happen because of them but maybe I&#x27;m just too impatient. </i><p>I have similar sentiments for similar reasons you list. I also tend to find the battle that people seem to create of &quot;privacy vs security&quot; to be sucking up all the air in the room of plausible ideas that can change the status quo and bring upon more effective societies, with namely corporate sponsors and individuals within governments reaping the benefits (effectively status quo) with most individuals in a given society mostly being taken on a ride with no true internalization of how any of it will enrich their life at best or end up dead from mostly being a function of where they happened to be born at worst.<p>I guess in saying that, it&#x27;s not too surprising that I see that using technology to subvert our present collective individual behaviors that takes advantage of how we operate today could break the apparent deadlock in a way we might not expect to unfold (with the ethics in mind of how some ways of going about such could just enable more of the same).