This is the cost of abusing the public's willingness to allow certain exceptions to civil liberties. In a society where the public generally trusts the authorit

This is the cost of abusing the public's willingness to allow certain exceptions to civil liberties. In a society where the public generally trusts the authorities, this problem wouldn't occur. People would almost always be willing to have their communications available for potential judicially-guarded examination, trusting that only justified suspicion of particularly violent crimes will ever be cause for using it. But when the authorities transgress once too many, the public in general will switch to services that properly defends their privacy. We can consider this a game-theoretic outcome of abusing the trust of the public. The consequence will eventually be that properly henious criminals will have better tools for not getting caught.