Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
He’s a hero. Doesn’t matter that it ended up being largely ignored by the public. He was motivated by doing good and sacrificed himself for it. That’s the definition of a hero. A former coworker said “who’s Edward Snowden?” when he came up. From that moment on, I judged her a moron, and that turned out to be a correct judgement.
quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Lol wut. He wasn’t ignored. Thanks to him, https is everywhere.
And we have a thousand more mainstream e2ee services.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I didn’t say he had no impact. It’s just that most people are idiots and are ignorant or apathetic to his cause.
quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 day ago
But those people all use https now, because the people who control the services they use redirected 80 to 443 for the sites they run.
It doesn’t matter if people are ignorant or apathetic, because they all got a security upgrade by doing nothing. Thanks to Snowden.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t understand. That’s literally exactly what I wrote. I just didn’t know about the https aspect, which… acknowledged. My point stands, what he did was right regardless of the difference it made in the end.