When the first mass market computer came out, the cost to purchase it outweighed the people need for it.
Everyone realizes that there are folks out there that work outside the system and work very hard to destroy it. Let's take hackers, eco-terrorists or guerilla type anti-government types for instance. These are often hard for authorities to deal with. In the future we must beware of the eActivist as they use the technology to work to undermine the eGovernment IT infrastructures.