I know it keeps being said that we can't produce technical solutions to the problem of state surveillance but the political changes we're advocating for that wo

I know it keeps being said that we can't produce technical solutions to the problem of state surveillance but the political changes we're advocating for that would fix this are akin to the "re-write the product" arguments. The people you want to change are such a vast system of people, views, beliefs and incentives that changing them will take an inordinate amount of time (this is an assumption). Though the effort required to build an environment frustrating enough to make technical state surveillance infeasible is perhaps huge it would seem that the impact any individual can have in that area is vastly larger than in the former (also an assumption). This would suggest to me that more could be achieved to frustrate the process of automating state surveillance in a shorter time span through technology than can through government reform.