Comment by feanaro

> You don't need to know biochemistry and medicine to know that you don't want carcinogenic elements in your food, right? In the same sense, you don't need to know how to check that a channel is private and secure in order to push for regulations that make your communication channels secure.

Yes, but you need to be able to conceive what cancer is and (roughly) how and why it appears in order to understand and fight the concept of carcinogens. Most people today still haven't realized the cancer and the carcinogens in the story of privacy. This is despite the fact that this was widely known in a prior time (see Stasi).

> Which is exactly the same thing I'm proposing: push for regulations that align with their interests.

Yes, except it's not happening because people are complacent, which is why people are fuming when they see stuff like this here.