I think they have already quite well demonstrated their total disregard for the public's privacy. Now that the horse has bolted they now suddenly realise that they have backed themselves into a dark nasty corner, where everything is going to be encrypted within a few days years.
Sorry, but you have to earn trust and they are unlikely to get it back. Just look at the way geeks look at Microsoft.
Yes. There isn't some big debate going on. The feds did a bad thing by looking in people's bedroom windows. Now people are shutting their blinds. It's not a debate. It's a response. The feds can mandate that people open the windows again but then there will be no more undressing in front of them. The peep show is over.
Ugh, that just makes me think that when the NSA will start using "modern graphics" in its slides (since everyone seems to be mocking it over that now) and maybe open source some non-critical spying tools, many will start calling it the "new" (and better) NSA and even start cheering for it.
Sorry, but you have to earn trust and they are unlikely to get it back. Just look at the way geeks look at Microsoft.
You can't put the genie back in the bottle.