With all of the articles about veterans seeking treatment for insomnia having a swat raid the next day to take there guns, you ask this? With Stop and Frisk in New York, you ask this? With ALL of the articles on "what to watch for" including things like "supports the constitution," you have to ask this? Now this is all in the USA, but I am sure people other places have the same stories...

So, to answer your question, Western Governments!

Well of course. Once you consider your own citizens enemies, you end up with lots of them.

The US can go back to Project MINARET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
Project SHAMROCK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
The US like the UK has always had an interest in all communications internally and beyond the USA, UK.
The good news is this is now in the open and generations of crypto experts can finally understand the collaboration between mil/gov and the big telcos.

Jeremy Oliver and Edward Snowden. Why?

All the slashdot users with gmail couldn't tell anyone.

Everyone screws this up with certs. Part if this is because they are needlessly complex, and don't really solve the problem they were intended to solve. The entire CA system really needs to die. In a fire. Right now.

Shhh! That is why it is lag free... Don't lag my DNS, bud...

And you thought dick pics were a problem...

The funny thing is that the technical security of snail mail (a paper envelope) is amazingly poor, but it is generally quite secure due to law and custom. However, law and custom is absolutely no security or privacy on the Internet. There is the problem.

It is slow. "planning 2 gig service" is very far from "Delivering 2 gig service."

The US gov reaches out to the bank used. If that bank fails to act then any other bank interconnects to the bank a person of interest uses become interesting.
The accounts are isolated. The bank used is isolated. Any other banks connecting to the bank with the account are isolated.
With the use of ideas like Section 311 the USA Patriot Act account holders and their banks can be traced.
The international financial system then has to select between that isolated bank or U.S. regulators.
The other option is to entice a person of interest to a third country to face rendition.

Re "Those with above secret clearance, who live normal lives, and those without it, who are lied to and treated like "
Thats the new security boondoggle that gets funding and contracts flowing. The seduction of needing a new security clearance.
People in the gov, mil and contractors have seen a huge expansion of their bureaucratic access under a "collect it all" system.
What has changed? The US domestic legal system has now seen more interest by the public asking basic privacy questions since the Church Committee/report days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A person looking to work for the gov/mil or as a contractor now fully understands that they will be working on domestic generational trap doors, back doors, in collaboration with the big domestic computer brands and with foreign powers.
Collect it all, sort it all. The domestic jobs are waiting... who did you spy on today?

But it's WINE dependency is a bitch...

Not just Linux. It is available on every Unix I have seen from HP-UX to AIX to the BSDs.

But how will the Ubuntu users know which Debian version to use? :)