I think many people do not understand. What seems obvious for us may be difficult to grasp even for programmers. Almost 20 years ago, I have received the virus "I love you" in my mail box. For me, it was obvious it was a virus and that it was "safe" to save it on disk and open it using notepad as long as I did not double click on it. I was very surprised that for most of my colleagues, it was far from obvious. I am not against giving powers to police, but for me, giving a backdoor is completely unacceptable.

I believe that people who know more fear more. And those who don't know simply aren't able to identify the threat well enough to take action. For now, the threat is relatively abstract (some dark agency somewhere maybe has access to some amount of computery things and might stalk me or whatever). And by the time the threat evolves into men with guns in their living room, it won't be associated with the current info wars. Assuming, of course, that true history remains accessible...