&gt; still not established that forced MITM will reduce terrorism.<p>That&#x27;s the only criterion.<p>All the rest are excuses because people can make a calculus and by and large people and corps, if MITM would be proven to be effective, would likely go for it, given alternatives, despite any other objections put forth by people who believe in opposing this alternative.<p>It&#x27;s almost as though people wish it would be ineffective to prove the opinion right.  Is it effective?  I don&#x27;t know, I don&#x27;t have the data but neither do others with opposing views -it&#x27;s conjecture.  But, one would imagine a few governments must have the answer to that but aren&#x27;t saying.<p>&gt;or they&#x27;re not wasting the money, not catching terrorists, and just using the information to violate specific individuals.<p>Isn&#x27;t that what one would want from such a regime?  Be able to dedicate resources on following the right graphs?<p>That&#x27;s saying, well, they have the capability to follow known targets, but when it gets to terrorist targets they become dumb  -even though the mission of such orgs is to follow those specific targets.