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This is the same scare tactic they always tout to take away your rights with. The Canadian government said the exact same thing last year while promoting their

• rdtsc 13y ago
  Whether there is an agenda by lobbying groups or other interests in increasing surveillance or just federal agencies need more power and funding to "protect", the effects are predictable -- make a showcase example using some horrible crime (terrorism, child pornography, in the past maybe communism or drug war related). It doesn't matter as long there would be maximum rage against the perpetrator and nobody in the public sphere would dare defend them and still remain standing as a public or political figure. People like stories and laws are slowly eroded by scary stories. Joe-Smith-child-pornographer and Molly-Johnson-the-terrorist cases are brought as examples of the evil of encryption and anonymity. It is very easy, the script is always the same. Again not saying there is top down shadow conspiracy to all this just how the constraints and incentives are set up these things emerge as a result.