The most important line: "put security ahead of both domestic and international surveillance". That's what it comes down to, we can have communications security or surveillance, not both.
While there's a healthy debate in the US (and to a lesser extent in Europe perhaps) about the extent of spying being done by governments, I see hardly any concern in India among both media organizations (with probably the exception of The Hindu newspaper), businesses and citizens.<p>Fed by the constant drip-drip of "free" features, people are almost blind to the true "cost" they're paying. I've tried my best to convince people I know to adopt even simple (not foolproof, which probably nothing is) countermeasures like VPNs or HTTPS-Everywhere...but nobody gives a damn.<p>Reminds me of a Supernatural episode [1] featuring drugged Turducken sandwiches that turn people into passive, media-absorbing, harmless zombies.<p>[1] - <a href="http://io9.com/5861160/turducken-and-the-rise-of-dick-make-one-helluva-supernatural-episode" rel="nofollow">http://io9.com/5861160/turducken-and-the-rise-of-dick-make-o...</a>
> We need to build a coalition of free-world nations dedicated to a secure global Internet, and we need to continually push back against bad actors -- both state and non-state -- that work against that goal.<p>Let's do it. Even though I'm starting to believe that a "secure by default Internet" will come from the wilderness of the Internet and not from committees, because too many corporations (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc) and governments (US, China, "5 eyes", etc) will push against those committees' standards, I still think it's important to have at least some large countries support those types of projects when they arrive, or at least not be outright hostile against them and try to ban them "because terrorism/child pornography/money laundering".<p>These technologies will need some time to incubate, and leak into the mainstream, so at the very least we'll need some countries to turn a 'blind eye' to them until they reach critical mass, and not try to shut them down from day one or threaten people with new laws and arrests if they use them.