> Mark Rowley, the national police lead for counter-terrorism, said companies needed to think about their "corporate social responsibility" in creating products that made it hard for the authorities to access material during investigations.

And law enforcement has to think about the distrust of government by its supposed citizen/masters that it's causing by indiscriminately spying on everyone. Snowden isn't the problem. The problem is that there was something worth exposing.

If spies and law enforcement worked indisputable within the bounds of expectation and law (and not merely within law that they essentially drafted, for their convenience), rather than in the shadows, then I'm quite sure that businesses and others would mostly have no problem working with them.

If I know that you're going to be honest, I have no reason to protect myself against you specifically. If not, you're just another threat.

Come back into the fold, law enforcement. We miss you.