Exactly. Imho, the true nuances of the outrage over NSA collection were never that they could do it. That was assumed. It was that they could and were doing it

Exactly. Imho, the true nuances of the outrage over NSA collection were never that they could do it. That was assumed. It was that they could and were doing it to (for all intents) everything. Herd encryption isn't intended to make it impossible for them to gather intelligence. It's intended to make it impossible for them to indiscriminately gather dragnet intelligence.