That's not the point of the comics, IMNSHO. The point is "the attacker will go for the weakest link in a system; secure enough crypto is no longer the weakest l

That's not the point of the comics, IMNSHO. The point is "the attacker will go for the weakest link in a system; secure enough crypto is no longer the weakest link, people using it become one." So...while using direct force against a prominent politician is unlikely, there are other tried-and-true methods for compromising a human element, methods which have already been perfected a long time before modern cryptography was even born: bribery, blackmail, etc.