Before reading this I never considered Snowden could have been a motivator for Let’s Encrypt.

Same. Fact checking on Wikipedia seems to indicate that the letsencrypt initiative predates Snowden revelations.

	▲	onionisafruit a day ago \| parent [-]
		I did the same. I found the same about it predating Snowden, but I also found this quote from J Alex Halderman in a remembrance of Peter Eckersley. > That summer, Edward Snowden came forward with chilling revelations about NSA mass surveillance, and the need for ubiquitous encryption became clearer than ever. It’s not a claim that it was the instigator, but it seems like it was heavily on their minds.