If you are talking about tarnished rainbow table functions, yupp. And against determined targeted attack, again yupp. Encryption as standard way of life - might happen, but my optimistic estimates are known not to always have materialized ;-))

But if backdoors are required by law,that should steer smart people into cracking careers: either for the gov or as pirates...

>I don't really see that as happening. People, for the most part, don't care. And if you look at what the NSA has done here in the US, there is no secure method.
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>>Agree fully. Back then Snowden was not an issue, but being able to build a system from open sources for specific handsets might become relevant, if the more optimistic of my estimates come true (ie: people wake up and take notice on how insecure their data is and they at least try to get themselves into a drivers seat on what is sent back to whom and when)