The worst thing for me about the Snowden leaks wasn&#x27;t that.  It was the deliberate interference in secure protocols (e.g. the flawed random number generators), combined with the pressure to leave open accidental flaws.<p>This makes everyone vulnerable to J. Random Cybercriminal when those same flaws are finally discovered by the non-secret services.<p>Being a victim of an identity thief is a lot less terrifying than being in the middle of a automatic weapon massacre, but it&#x27;s a lot more likely to happen.<p>The framing of the debate as &quot;encryption = only used for evil&quot; is not only wrong, but very dangerous from that point-of-view.<p>I don&#x27;t have any easy answers that keeps everyone happy.  But neither does anyone else.