The thing I fear most is that if anti-ssh/ssl/tor/vpn measures start to be somewhat effective, western governments will also see it as an excuse to implement them in the guise of "crime prevention", just now that services such as gmail are finally adopting it as default.

Which means we'd be forced back to a 90's level of internet security at least for consumers, I'm sure corporations will be able to 'buy' the right to use encryption...