Exactly. The technical side of secure communication is (mostly) a solved problem and there are more than enough competent people in the industry and interest g

Exactly. The technical side of secure communication is (mostly) a solved problem and there are more than enough competent people in the industry and interest groups to solve upcoming challenges. A piece of (probably actual) paper can disable any of that for most people. And that paper can reach as deep in the tech stack as it needs to in order to achieve its goals. Down to the silicon mask if required. Within the legal framework some companies benefit from protecting users privacy and some don't but, again, this isn't a technological challenge but a political one (for business reasons this time). And yes I get why tech minded people often try to engineer us out of such situations anyway, but in the long term they can only score short term victories while loosing in the long term.