> Governments seem to be universally terrified of even the slightest possibility of anyone in the world having a private conversation. We used to make fun of t

> Governments seem to be universally terrified of even the slightest possibility of anyone in the world having a private conversation. We used to make fun of the countries behind the iron curtain for their lack privacy. The thought of living in a surveillance state seemed horrible as well as unrealistic in "the west". Freedom / democracy loving people like us would never have that kind of problem. Now it seems the whole world has gone mad, and it seems that people looking for privacy, are just considered as people looking to do something terrible that the state needs to stop anyway.