home encryption is killing government,<p>...and it&#x27;s illegal.<p>The US government is a monolithic institution that is governed by the mandate &quot;move slow and break things&quot;. They can only legislate what they can enforce. They can&#x27;t stop people sharing music, they can&#x27;t stop people sharing data, and they sure as fuck won&#x27;t be able to stop encryption.<p>They definitely will be able to drive it underground and limit the average American&#x27;s privacy though. It is just that, as far as anyone can be a typical America, they aren&#x27;t a hardened radicalized terrorist. Let&#x27;s take stock of the wars against nouns:<p>* War on Drugs, massive failure.<p>* War on Terror, not only failure, likely made problem worse.<p>* War on Math, if we measure this by people prevented from using encryption, then we are losing. However, if we measure this by student test scores relative to other nations, we are def. winning the war against math.