Mass surveillance is, like most absolute power, cancer of the soul. I have read your email, and your IMs; I know first-hand how it corrupts a person. I can, wit

Mass surveillance is, like most absolute power, cancer of the soul. I have read your email, and your IMs; I know first-hand how it corrupts a person. I can, without hesitation, guarantee that the situation is like that in the movie Elysium[0]: "They will hunt you to the edge of the earth for this [capability]." The most salient point, I think, is that it is worthless, from a LEO perspective, to tap into communication systems used by the masses--whether through provider taps or client-side scanning like Apple's purported CSAM AI--unless what you're really after is a way to monitor the general public at large. There's no way in hell that a nefarious player with technical resources, or chops themselves, would use one of these public systems to communicate with their compatriots. There are infinite and myriad bespoke channels of covert communications that these laws would never be able to touch which are much more likely to be the hubs of serious malfeasance. [0] https://youtu.be/qUQQerrs52w?t=54 https://youtu.be/qUQQerrs52w?t=54