Maybe I expressed myself poorly but I think you missed my point. My point was that the only way to force people to fix the issues is if ordinary hackers who are not working for any three latter agency start attacking the infrastructure too. And if you do that you risk prison time, even if you only do harmless exploits to highlight weaknesses.
As an individualist nation, there's little likelihood anyone will throw themselves away for the collective. Doubly so because the collective is super fucking thankless and turns everything it gets into garbage.
I've really been debating the idea if there's any point of trying to help at all at this point, and my current conclusion is: we're already wayyyy down the dystopia line. The only hope at this point is AI which will either save us or (hopefully) bring the great filter sooner (which means less suffering). But I no longer believe in protest.
