[lsc]

>The Internet is living, breathing, functioning proof that, at least to 99.9999% of human beings, utility > privacy.

Imagine, for a moment, that evidence comes forward that Snowden wasn't the first.

Imagine that someone in Snowden's position did exactly the same thing, only for financial gain, say, selling private company secrets to a competitor.

That would change the situation, would it not?

[aragot]

+1, the NSA is one player amongst all the countries, corporations, and ...work colleagues who might be interested in your files. There are more commercial agencies around than we'd like to think, who are given 10 grands to ruin your reputation or make your laptop disclose your next commercial move...