&gt;Your proposal is that they&#x27;re going to go house to house and search your attic for the last of those t-shirts the EFF printed the last time this happened?<p>As every comms is under surveillance its vastly easier than that. You just need to look for traffic you can&#x27;t read. And then go after the sender. If you make encrypted communication a criminal offense, that&#x27;s an easy task.