People associate Snowden's arguments with government surveillance and shrug it off with the "nothing to hide" argument. Here we're talking about average people

People associate Snowden's arguments with government surveillance and shrug it off with the "nothing to hide" argument. Here we're talking about average people's passwords leaked to the general public. Your files could be accessible by anyone. Or irrecoverably lost due to a bug. This has obvious consequences to the average person. Well, I don't expect the average to understand the issue nor be able (read: want) to do anything about it (ie. encrypt before handing over their data to untrusted third parties). Quite frankly, Jennifer Lawrence's nude photographs had more influence on the average person's thoughts about computer security than Snowden's revelations. As sad as it is.