Absolutely, I am not suggesting a defeatist posture. Rather, just design around the problem because that is what folks here can do. Those are the only actionable items I envision folks at HN contributing to. That said, I could incorrectly assuming that most here are technical in nature.

In my experience there just aren't enough people that care to actually do anything more than debate issues. Debate is a great way to think through problems and try to get the facts. Until these facts cost businesses a lot of money or put excessive burden on the courts, I just don't see this changing is all I am saying. If anything, this helps feed the self feeding system, so there just isn't any incentive for those in power to change deviate from business as usual.

In a morbid sense, I am actually curious to see how this plays out. They (the feds) may be opening a can of worms that is bigger than they imagine, as this may have other potentially complex legal ramifications that folks just didn't really think through.