This is true. Admittedly, I should have worded my statement differently. Yes, encryption makes mass surveillance more expensive. However, hacking everything, a

This is true. Admittedly, I should have worded my statement differently. Yes, encryption makes mass surveillance more expensive. However, hacking everything, all at once, all the time is not a requium for successful masss surveillance in the face of strong encryption. The bulk of communications are centralized somehow, either via their networking model or via common client software. Take Skype for example. NSA/GCHQ would never give up their ability to conduct mass surveillance on that platform. If Microsoft refused to cooperate for whatever reason (unlikely), they'd simply compromise Skype's network and/or client application accordingly. Such an operation, while expensive, is a far cry from hacking every single Skype user individually.