> The future is grim and to be honest I would just rather they came out in the open and acknowledged the fact that democracy and privacy as we know it is dead.

> The future is grim and to be honest I would just rather they came out in the open and acknowledged the fact that democracy and privacy as we know it is dead. That's overcooked. We've only had strong end-user crypto(graphy) for about 20 years; you can still have private conversations, whether in a field or in a private space that you are sure isn't bugged. This is no worse than it was 20 years ago. "Democracy [...] is dead" is a counsel of despair.