The line at the end that really hit me was this: > Almost all the attackers were known to the authorities, and if they had been watched, their use of encryptio

The line at the end that really hit me was this: > Almost all the attackers were known to the authorities, and if they had been watched, their use of encryption programs would have itself invited closer scrutiny. This is precisely the scenario that Phil Zimmermann (creator of PGP) and others have been warning about (and working against) for decades. As Zimmermann said in a 1999 essay linked here not long ago, "What if everyone believed that law-abiding citizens should use postcards for their mail?" (https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html) The scary part to me is not just that it's our present reality, but that it's so readily accepted. Crypto advocates need better PR. (And to be fair, better UI.)