Will the NSA Controversy Drive People To Use Privacy Software?
Found on Slashdot on Saturday, 06 July 2013
As the U.S. government continues to pursue former NSA contractor Edward Snowden for leaking some of the country's most sensitive intelligence secrets, the debate over federal surveillance seems to have abated somewhat — despite Snowden's stated wish for his revelations to spark transformative and wide-ranging debate, it doesn't seem as if anyone's taking to the streets to protest the NSA's reported monitoring of Americans' emails and phone-call metadata.
Despite some polling data that suggests people are concerned about their privacy, software for securing it is just not an exciting topic for most folks.
The sad truth is that the vast majority of people just won't care and forget about all this in a few weeks while the NSA et al with just keep on doing what they did.