It is to an extent funny to think that governments think they can sit on top of communications and implement mass surveillance. If you make it illegal to encryp

It is to an extent funny to think that governments think they can sit on top of communications and implement mass surveillance. If you make it illegal to encrypt your stuff, the knowledged/tech savvy people will start to work on using steganography. There will be an explosion of cat pictures in the Internet. Good luck finding the hideous cat :-) All the government does now is inconvenience to the majority of citizens who they have nothing to worry about anyway.