I somewhat agree, but I think that solving the technological problems pushes the government into taking actions that are more and more outside the realm of what

I somewhat agree, but I think that solving the technological problems pushes the government into taking actions that are more and more outside the realm of what generally-ambivalent people care about. People are generally less okay with the government opening their mail and inserting spy devices into their computers than they are with the government sniffing their network traffic, for example.