> Technological tools then become our only option. Your only option for what? Privacy? If that's all you are trying to achieve then maybe it's sufficient. Many

> Technological tools then become our only option. Your only option for what? Privacy? If that's all you are trying to achieve then maybe it's sufficient. Many people perceive this as part of a much larger threat to civil liberties though. GPG isn't going to stop you getting detained and strip searched at the airport. TLS isn't going to stop you being questioned about that cousin coming to visit from Pakistan. Only giving political donations in Bitcoin isn't going to keep you off a list of dissidents forever. And ultimately people do care if their government is keeping them safe or not. So far they have zero evidence of that. You don't think people care about the billions of dollars spent reading their email instead of actually protecting their lives?