Check our defense budgets. They don't go down. The NSA has massive data farms that are not constrained by budgets. That's not exactly the problem.
The more outlandish the plots on Scandal and House of Cards, and the funnier Jon Stewart gets to be, the more and more awful the truth revealed in the real news seems to be. We get the truth we're willing to accept... what else will come?
I so totally agree. But what's the alternative? We all quit?
Since Schneier's crypto reputation is not in question, I think it's reasonable to believe that there is a possible statelmate end state.
If everyone goes all in on certificate transparency, HSTS, and Cert Pinning, engineers can at least make life miserable on the Surveliance Industrial complex for a little while.
The more outlandish the plots on Scandal and House of Cards, and the funnier Jon Stewart gets to be, the more and more awful the truth revealed in the real news seems to be. We get the truth we're willing to accept... what else will come?