After Snowden, I realized there are two types of security: the one that protect your from high-profile black hats, and the one that protects you from governments.

I just want to be protected from criminals and other black hats that only do harm. It's pointless to be protected from the government, because I want real criminals to get caught. The chilling effect is real, but I still don't want criminals to hack me, and so far it seems things are okay, and online ads are more worrying than the NSA.

What's worrying with this NSA story, is how politics can influence with justice, when agencies use their powers for political gain but it doesn't seem the NSA is really using it on the US political scene.

However, the US abuse its power on the international scene, so it spies on its allies or even work with large US corporation to loot other countries. That's a real problem.

At the end of the day, lay people will just argue that what the NSA does is to preserve American dominance, so it must be good.

So in the end, the NSA and digital surveillance is never the problem, the problem has not changed, the problem is how the US behaves on the planet.

But ask yourself this question: do you trust your government? I'm not american, the US scares me, and I trust the US government. Even Trump could not do all the damage he wanted.

So in the end, the Snowden story only resonates with libertarians who fears that the US government will turn into a fascist soviet empire. It's not cyber surveillance that will do it. They should learn more about politics and history. Technology isn't everything.