In the three years since IETF said pervasive monitoring is an attack, what's changed?

IETF Security director Stephen Farrell offers a report card on evolving defences

FEATURE After three years of work on making the Internet more secure, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) still faces bottlenecks: ordinary peoples' perception of risk, sysadmins worried about how to manage encrypted networks, and - more even than state snooping - an advertising-heavy 'net business model that relies on collecting as much information as possible."