"Wait 'til you hear about people who record conversations the park! The spook bouncing lasers off the window of your home & office to reconstruct audio of your

"Wait 'til you hear about people who record conversations the park! The spook bouncing lasers off the window of your home & office to reconstruct audio of your conversations will seem quaint by comparison." In other words: most of the proper sense of proportion here is set by what reasonable expectations of privacy are. I can certainly appreciate the merits of a communication channel that features secure messages in transit. But I don't expect that by default. Privacy expectations should be set by contract or statute. On the other hand, I definitely expect that conversations in my residence or data on my device should be private by default. Eavesdropping is a whole different category from intrusion, even if you find both unpleasant.