For a long time, people who are concerned about online security and privacy have been derided as paranoid, tinfoil-hat-wearing kooks. Not only that, but it see

For a long time, people who are concerned about online security and privacy have been derided as paranoid, tinfoil-hat-wearing kooks. Not only that, but it seems to me that there's been far less coverage of these issues in mainstream media than in the tech press, and most mainstream coverage seems to take the governments' side. People who get most or all of their news from TV likely won't hear anything about all this; if they do, their eyes will glaze over as they don't have a clue how encryption works, or why it's important. Or, it will just vanish in the news cycle and they never think about it again. Edit: It also seems to me that most people just aren't going to care unless it directly affects them, at which time it's already far too late.