Snowden played no role in HTTPS adoption, because people don't seriously expect HTTPS to defeat NSA. Most peoples' threat models are much more modest. HTTPS ad

Snowden played no role in HTTPS adoption, because people don't seriously expect HTTPS to defeat NSA. Most peoples' threat models are much more modest. HTTPS adoption has a lot more to do with Google and Mozilla pushing it in their browsers, and Let's Encrypt making getting certificates easy. I have mixed feeling about that - the cost of easy certificates was making spoofing far easier.