Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet

Well, my timing was great on this one. I started it just a couple days before the whole project PRISM scandal, if you can call something so endemic a scandal. Cypherpunks predicts and warns against exactly this type of destruction of privacy by governments in the name of the “four horsemen of the infocalypse” (terrorists, drug dealers, pedophiles, and organized crime). While on one hand, those things are unarguably bad, what is the correct response and solution to them? Is it the complete forfeiture of privacy by all, innocent, suspected and guilty alike?

The discussion in the book is good, but it's poorly organized and sometimes too informal and repetitive.