James is so modest and gentlemanly. He gives Snowden all the credit for the (heroic; and virtually unbelievable in the notoriously mired-in-legacy-standards-and-nonstandards software world: cutting four years off mass adoption is ‘And the heroes of Valhalla shall clamor to sing your praises for eternity’ caliber stuff) push forward in commercial software security practices; but completely ignores the fact that Snowden probably never would have acted at all, and certainly nobody would have cared, without a suitably villanous and overreaching clandestine operation to blow the whistle on. He really ought to give himself a pat on the back for his part in this noble effort.
(All snark aside, WTF is it with the “Our actions caused problems; so we should blame the guy who revealed that for causing those problems” logic? It’s not as though software companies enjoy fixing bugs or making work for themselves; and “the terrorists” are not a terribly exciting customer base, so just maybe you should look in the mirror and think for a few minutes about just why a nontrivial slice of the tech sector has run screaming away from you and voluntarily taken on a bunch of PITA crypto adoption?)
