> Israel is having its Edward Snowden moment. Not in the sense that an employee of its intelligence community has defected to Russia while leaking hundreds of thousands of top-secret files to the media.<p>Pretty tendentious to say that "Edward Snowden has defected to Russia".<p>He hasn't defected to Russia. He has fled the USA, and Rusia gave him asylum. Very different.<p><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defect" rel="nofollow">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defect</a><p>> to leave one situation (such as a job) often to go over to a rival<p>He didn't leave one in order to go to the rival. He left one and then went to the rival.
Look back at the whole Snowden event has me thinking. Did it really change anything? Sure there was outrage and a lot of news coverage on it but did anything else really come of it?<p>We still willingly put all our private life details online. We still willingly use companies we know give the NSA access.<p>To me it seems like society just collectively shrugged our shoulders and moved on. That is really what scares me the most. Especially when you realize during certain time frames up to 85% of all about queries were not compliant. (page 82 <a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FISC_Memo_Opin_Order_Apr_2017.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FI...</a>)