Fine. Here's my contribution to the conversation: Mr Barr, your entreaties in this regard are based on the presumption that the government can be trusted. But our nation was founded on a mistrust of government, and your own actions demonstrate that the government cannot be trusted. Your own special counsel has issued a report that implicates the president in a felony (obstruction of justice) but you have failed to follow up in any way except to imply that there is "nothing to see here, move along." The fourth amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and the ninth amendment to the Constitution guarantees that the people retain un-enumerated rights. I, as a citizen of the United States, maintain that one of those unenumerated rights is my right to employ technological defenses against government overreach. Those are rights guaranteed to me by the Constitution. The right of the government to catch those it deems to be "the bad guys" is not.