Tangibly bad things would have to happen to a non-negligible amount of users. And, to be honest here, that's the threshold for me to care enough to do anything substantial.
A person's chats being read by some spooky unknown company or government agency has little-to-no tangible effect on a person's life. Until it does, people can spend their effort on problems that do have tangible effects on their lives. And I think that's reasonable. Others might say we shouldn't wait until it's too late... but there's many other problems where it's already "too late" that deserve attention.
Anyway, I think it's cheap to imply that people are just lazy (as some do) for not caring about this stuff. It's just they have other problems that deserve their attention.
It probably doesn't have a tangible effect on your life. But it would and does have an effect on: celebrities, political figures, people of non-Christian faiths, people who pissed off someone in the wrong department.
The less security that is provided to everyone, the easier it is to access content of the truly vulnerable people.
A person's chats being read by some spooky unknown company or government agency has little-to-no tangible effect on a person's life. Until it does, people can spend their effort on problems that do have tangible effects on their lives. And I think that's reasonable. Others might say we shouldn't wait until it's too late... but there's many other problems where it's already "too late" that deserve attention.
Anyway, I think it's cheap to imply that people are just lazy (as some do) for not caring about this stuff. It's just they have other problems that deserve their attention.