> It seems like "stop mass-scale surveillance" is a separate goal from "stop individual-scale surveillance". I feel like you set up a strawman, rather than actually addressing what skrebbel originally said.

My point was that security is often black-and-white because a crack can turn out to be a crater, and often is.

With regards to state-sponsored, dragnet surveillance: those are the most skilled attackers, and they've exploited far more subtle issues than the one being discussed here; they're the ones that you need to be worried about for undisclosed vulnerabilities, letalone terribly obvious flaws like this one.