It seems oddly short-sighted for SV companies to place blame on the messenger and not, say, the espionage system that created an ecosystem where it's perfectly sensible for people to ask whether their data is actually secure when stored on the servers of companies headquartered in a nation that spies on its own people.
The US could easily have ruled the world in terms of technological sophistication in the cloud services space if the government had been able to keep its sticky fingers off of data that it didn't own. The fact that it couldn't is really the government's fault, not the man that exposed it. A secret this big doesn't stay secret.
> It seems oddly short-sighted for SV companies to place blame on the messenger and not, say, the espionage system that created an ecosystem where it's perfectly sensible for people to ask whether their data is actually secure when stored on the servers of companies headquartered in a nation that spies on its own people.
I don't think it's about blame, it's just that you can't trust US companies with your data anymore.
The US could easily have ruled the world in terms of technological sophistication in the cloud services space if the government had been able to keep its sticky fingers off of data that it didn't own. The fact that it couldn't is really the government's fault, not the man that exposed it. A secret this big doesn't stay secret.