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.
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.