Been a long time watcher of Ryan, and just subscribed finally, and it's nice to read comments and interact with like minded (sane!) people.
The Snowden topic is an interesting one. I've worked for the government the last bunch-o-years as a software developer, and went from Snowden being a hero, to it being well, in my view, much more nuanced.
Yes, they were (and are) collecting a massive amount of data, but people WILLINGLY give 100x more information to social media sites like Facebook, then prop…