Something worth considering is the conditions necessary for having both subjective and objective expectation of privacy. If nobody expects to be able to avoid the NSA, nobody can expect to have subjective expectation of privacy.
NSA will certainly know everybody's reaction to the Snowden leaks.
I figure the absolute worst case scenario imaginable is that USGOV is producing a list of sysadmins and privacy conscious individuals for extermination. Most "coding" seems to be happening now several layers up from linux systems. If the Government wanted, they could kill everyone who knew how to actually use a computer. Then they could "Teach low income Americans to program" and then just conveniently forget to teach them the full stack. Note, I don't think this is happening, but it isn't unimaginable.
In addition, the narrative has been very pro CIA since the very beginning. There have been a lot of people making the clear distinction between machine intelligence and human intelligence, which is definately a CIA line.
NSA will certainly know everybody's reaction to the Snowden leaks.
I figure the absolute worst case scenario imaginable is that USGOV is producing a list of sysadmins and privacy conscious individuals for extermination. Most "coding" seems to be happening now several layers up from linux systems. If the Government wanted, they could kill everyone who knew how to actually use a computer. Then they could "Teach low income Americans to program" and then just conveniently forget to teach them the full stack. Note, I don't think this is happening, but it isn't unimaginable.
In addition, the narrative has been very pro CIA since the very beginning. There have been a lot of people making the clear distinction between machine intelligence and human intelligence, which is definately a CIA line.