If the Internet is expected to transform personal communication then confidentiality must be guaranteed. The only way that confidentiality can be assured is strong encryption in the hands and machines of every person. The flow of personal information through cyberspace would be just too tempting for the grey people. The grey people are the bureaucrats. They are the ones who equate confidentiality with secrecy.
Secrecy implies conspiracy in the bureaucrat's mind.
It is the mindset of the information gatherer, the filer, the sorter, the tracker, the little grey person in a little grey cell. If it is hidden from me it must be secret and therefore it must be important. The little grey person deals with secrets all day long. Sorts them, collates them, files them with a clockish soul. Here is the secret of the new bomb, stamped and filed with death.