Being involved in a hacker space in a very developed European country and leading workshops that try to educate the general public on online security this is my view on the belated public reaction of all these past years of leaks.
There are two main camps visible to me, the indifferent and the frightened. I'm sure there are plenty of people in the spectrum between those two but I find observing these two camps rather interesting. Because one camp seems to be overwhelmed by all the revelations, usually this camp is not involved in IT at a professional or hobby level.
The indifferent camp seems to either believe it's a problem but that they can't do anything about it, or believe that this is status quo and they need to go on with their lives.
The other camp, the frightened, are usually IT enthusiasts. Even if they're not very skilled, they're now working on that. They're looking up information on Tor, GPG and PKI.
They seem to be bunkering down to defend their privacy from their own government.
There are two main camps visible to me, the indifferent and the frightened. I'm sure there are plenty of people in the spectrum between those two but I find observing these two camps rather interesting. Because one camp seems to be overwhelmed by all the revelations, usually this camp is not involved in IT at a professional or hobby level.
The indifferent camp seems to either believe it's a problem but that they can't do anything about it, or believe that this is status quo and they need to go on with their lives.
The other camp, the frightened, are usually IT enthusiasts. Even if they're not very skilled, they're now working on that. They're looking up information on Tor, GPG and PKI.
They seem to be bunkering down to defend their privacy from their own government.
Those are just my observations.