> as long as my endpoints are safe and I'm using encryption between them, they have to work for it, so only real baddies will be seriously targeted. This techn

> as long as my endpoints are safe and I'm using encryption between them, they have to work for it, so only real baddies will be seriously targeted. This technical barrier is getting weaker every year (or month or week?), we cannot be sure that encryption is still holding up, or at least: that it will always hold up. And besides that, endpoint security may be acceptable for real experts, but never for the layman (probable backdoors in Windows, MacOS - maybe even Linux OSes). If we as a society decide to accept what the NSA does, then we accept the total loss of privacy - it's then just a matter of time. And without privacy, democracies will die and corruption will flourish. To think that... > only real baddies will be seriously targeted. ...is a grave mistake.