Except the next year, we saw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_%28software%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_%28software%29 I don't remember an

Except the next year, we saw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_%28software%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_%28software%29 I don't remember and can't find a citation as to when this became public knowledge but feel like it was not much later. In face of future technology, it does not seem like strong crypto is the answer. Imagine, for instance, mass-scale audio surveillance, perhaps with lasers or microdrones or something. (I'm thinking decades out so I can handwave magical nanotech.) DNA sweeping to collect skin shedding or other stray cells to determine who was where (if face/body recog isn't enough). We simply leak too much information everywhere to hope for technological solutions.