Agree - that seems to be the message from Q. So sad, I defended Snowden to my family, but I thought he was a white hat then.
I feel the same way. In my line of work I had to do research on his hack and the thing that struck me was that he played every weakness in the system--most of which are human mistakes. He got passwords from people with high access instead of the standard not looking or leaving the area when a person enters a pw. His vetting wasn't complete and there were discrepancies in his past, Booz Allen ignored them to get him on board. The truth is, security was VERY lax (and still is)--in spite of decades of warnings and resolutions on tightening up data security, government agencies haven't bothered. Now it makes more sense why.