I am not convinced that the solution to criminals increasing their power with technology is purely political. There are technological solutions as well. Crimi

I am not convinced that the solution to criminals increasing their power with technology is purely political. There are technological solutions as well. Criminals are raiding bank accounts by tricking people into divulging secret passwords or other information? Banks can issue smart cards, thus ensuring that secrets cannot be inadvertently divulged (because the cards cannot divulge their secrets). Governments are abusing their surveillance powers? We can build systems that encrypt messages and send the ciphertexts through mix-nets (or more complicated approaches for things like social networking [1]). The political side of this should be encouraging or at least not discouraging the deployment of such technologies. Laws can be changed more easily than technologies. Deploy a secure infrastructure now; if the law changes later, the technology will still protect us. [1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/social-networking-frientegrity-privacy-and-integrity-untrusted-provider https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/social-ne...