content: These bureaucrats aren't technocrats. Technocrats are technologically skilled elites. These people don't understand fuck all about technology. All they know is that math (cryptography) prevents them from spying on people. Their threat of "let us spy or we will use the powers of the state to force you to let us spy" carries the implication that they do not believe there should be any realm of existence free from their control. They don't understand the technological implications of what they want because they don't understand technology.