&gt; It seems like &quot;stop mass-scale surveillance&quot; is a separate goal from &quot;stop individual-scale surveillance&quot;. I feel like you set up a strawman, rather than actually addressing what skrebbel originally said.<p>My point was that security is often black-and-white because a crack can turn out to be a crater, and often is.<p>With regards to state-sponsored, dragnet surveillance: those are the most skilled attackers, and they&#x27;ve exploited far more subtle issues than the one being discussed here; they&#x27;re the ones that you need to be worried about for undisclosed vulnerabilities, letalone terribly obvious flaws like this one.