If things stay as they are, things will be easier and cheaper. But things never stay the same, and even for their needs, crypto won't suddenly become useless (m

If things stay as they are, things will be easier and cheaper. But things never stay the same, and even for their needs, crypto won't suddenly become useless (maybe the kind that relies on central parties, but people who take this stuff seriously probably don't rely on the "we promise we wont look at your key generation" in their threat models, and look, even AFRICOM uses Chinese satellites[0] which I'm sure numerous of SIGINT folks had to give their ok for, right?). And there are things on the horizon like meshnets[1] that should prove to bring more challenges for governments (and private contractors/companies) that seek to tap backbones, DIY cellphones[2] that bypass coercive governments who sweet talk org/corps, and cheap drones that can be controlled by gestures of potential targets at the disposal of the masses[3] that enable crowd-sourced data collection and attack vectors previously not available to the common man. Also, impromptu DoD initiatives[4], don't make me think things are as asymmetric as most people may think. [0] http://blog.heritage.org/2013/05/07/american-military-communications-should-not-be-running-over-chinese-satellites/ http://blog.heritage.org/2013/05/07/american-military-commun... [1] http://forum.chimeshnet.com/ http://forum.chimeshnet.com/ [2] http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=2182 http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=2182 [3] http://startupdestiny.com/2013/11/19/why-i-hacked-an-ar-drone-with-leap-motion-and-node-js-part-1-of-2/ http://startupdestiny.com/2013/11/19/why-i-hacked-an-ar-dron... [4] http://www.zyn.com/sbir/sbres/sbir/dod/darpa/darpasb133-002.htm http://www.zyn.com/sbir/sbres/sbir/dod/darpa/darpasb133-002....