In my humble opinion, at the end of the day anything that is a valid crime must have a victim. So if you find a victim, you should be able to trace backwards t

In my humble opinion, at the end of the day anything that is a valid crime must have a victim. So if you find a victim, you should be able to trace backwards to find the criminal. It's just lazy crap policing to expect everyone to accept their security being compromised so you can dragnet everyone, including the vast majority who are innocent of any crime, and expect to sit on your ass and have your job done for you by google alerts. This kind of dragnet surveillance of the entire populace was impossible (without unlimited manpower/funds) until very recently. It was not impossible to find criminals before smartphones/encryption, and it's not impossible now. The authorities have so many more ways to catch criminals than at any time in history, but they still want more. I don't want to live in a world where my every move and conversation is tracked and stored in a database forever.