But we are not all unibombers. Any security/privacy discussion starts with the level of threat. The average person doesn't want to hide their every detail, nor

But we are not all unibombers. Any security/privacy discussion starts with the level of threat. The average person doesn't want to hide their every detail, nor do they have to. The average person probably wants something like "I don't want my government to passively scan what I read online". That's an easy hurdle. Or, "my brother is addicted to cocaine and I want to talk to him about it without AT&T reporting our conversation the police." Again, this is easy. But if you say "I'm a defense contractor currently under investigation for treason and want to I pass money/information to my handler in North Korea undetected." THAT would be a challenge. It is probably still doable, but we should not abandon the basic needs of most people simply because we cannot promise total privacy to the most difficult cases too. (Fyi, I once talked to a defense attorney representing alleged terrorists. His clients lived overseas and the attorney was representing them in the US. That man was one of those hard privacy cases.)