Governments are not neutral parties. They have interest in mass surveillance. Moreover, I don't believe a neutral party is possible. Organized groups with enoug

Governments are not neutral parties. They have interest in mass surveillance. Moreover, I don't believe a neutral party is possible. Organized groups with enough motivation and resources will find a way to influence neutral parties. Just take a look at journalism, or even education, today. Both of those groups were intended to be neutral, but they are not because they are heavily influenced from outside. I know education in regulated, but it shouldn't be. I don't believe the original intention was for heavy handed political parties to use education to meld young influential minds to their liking. On a side note: companies and governments alike believe that a single security audit before each release is sufficient (many don't even do that much). They are wrong. Instead, they should be hiring a team of full-time penetration testers that work in parallel with standard quality control testers. Now back to my original train of thought. I believe the solution is exactly what we have -- natural selection. When the financial loss exceeds the executives tolerance threshold they will either fold, or adapt. The organizations that are better at adapting will survive. It will take time, but as long as the losses are great enough natural selection will affect the course of things to come.