> This program makes me nervous because its primary use case is to obstruct justice, which the author tries to get away from with a thinly-veiled excuse that it

> This program makes me nervous because its primary use case is to obstruct justice, which the author tries to get away from with a thinly-veiled excuse that it could also be used to defend against criminals I agree that there's a problem with the author's messaging, but I think the problem is with this first as a tool for "when your house gets raided by the police..." There are all kinds of reasons to encrypt your data. Some of them involve obstructing justice, some involve protecting oneself from "justice," but there are many others. If you have a good reason to encrypt, then you probably have good reasons to protect your system using a program like this. Leaving aside the State, and more mundane robberies, some people have good reasons to be concerned about industrial espionage[1]. Tools like this seem like a good way to counter that. [1] http://www.infoworld.com/article/2615610/data-security/when-in-china--don-t-leave-your-laptop-alone.html http://www.infoworld.com/article/2615610/data-security/when-...