I think this is the saddest aspect of these spying programs and the ensuing paranoia... it actually might discourage people from using encryption or anonymizing

I think this is the saddest aspect of these spying programs and the ensuing paranoia... it actually might discourage people from using encryption or anonymizing proxies... for fear it will get them on a watch list. If you start using PGP for all your email, then you by inference "have something to hide". Brilliant logic. What a mess.