I think you&#x27;re projecting the present state of affairs forward. Honestly? I don&#x27;t know enough to think that&#x27;s likely.<p>The WOD happened, by one story, because Nixon figured out that some of the heroin the CIA was transporting with Air America was finding its way to troops in the field. That met with general approval so they generalized it. For the Greatest and Silent Generations, the sheer lack of adequate information about drugs was impossible to explain.<p>It&#x27;s not clear to me that a mechanism related to encryption is in the wind. Sure, there&#x27;s overreach. And then there isn&#x27;t. <i>just</i> being an encryptyor isn&#x27;t enough - you have to also be affiliated with something they consider Nasty.<p>After all, look how the blacklisting thing worked out. It was all hell for people like Dalton Trumbo. But in a reasonably non-ideological way of looking at it, Trumbo was an actual Stalinist.