I have &quot;after Snowden&quot; begin to doubt that. Sure, there is a lot of people who say they support privacy. But then a lot of the industry nowadays is based on shuffling peoples data around. So I wonder how &quot;deep&quot; peoples convictions are or if it&#x27;s just more out of convenience to avoid responsibility for their own activities?<p>Rarely is someone in technology upset over, say, the lack of use of encryption when sending e-mails. While when you talk to say lawyers or journalists, for which privacy is the basis of their activities, they are often quite upset over the tech industries cavalier attitudes.<p>More than anything I think you can&#x27;t effectively defend something if you don&#x27;t know the issues or peoples concerns. It&#x27;s great that there is a lingering support of privacy from hackers subculture, but if you can&#x27;t oppose someone saying &quot;but terrorism&quot; it might not be worth very much. It might actually be more damaging, because you don&#x27;t see how you could be the &quot;bad&quot; guy (in terms of privacy).