Robert Cormier
While disturbing, knowing that once the American Intel agencies became aware of the internet, they supported it's development, it's not at all surprising, and, was quite predictable more than 30 years ago. US Intel agencies have an extensive history of demanding back door access, as well as encryption keys etc. In the States, for example, privacy via encryption has long been held as MUNITIONS, and, the government has full control over it. Consider this from Wikipedia: In 2013, an article on Zimmerman's Law quoted him as saying "The natural flow of technology tends to move in the direction of making surveillance easier, and the ability of computers to track us doubles every eighteen months."