[nickpsecurity]

" tries to enact meaningful change in a system that at least pretends to be a representative democracy, will not be enough to reach a critical mass to actually do something. Cultures correct negative behavior through consistent reinforcement of a norm. Until people want privacy as a norm, and fight for privacy as a norm, the flames fueling a surveillance state are simply being retarded, not extinguished."

That's my exact point. The laws need to change to reduce what they can do, punish offenses, and optionally encourage the better approaches. To get that, a huge amount of people have to lean on Congress. That will only happen if they start valuing their privacy or at least have common sense that scumbags + unlimited power/knowledge + immunity is a bad idea. Cryptographers, past speaking out, can't solve that problem and hence are just irritating to opponents who continue to win while laws enable them to.