During the panel, Greenwald said the NSA is able to target encrypted communications because so few people actually use encryption tools. That makes the people who are actually trying to stay secure stick out like sore thumbs, thus making it much easier for the agency to focus its efforts on hacking the relatively small bits of encrypted data that they intercept.
If more people would use it, then we would all be better off.
I don't bother
I think I'll take all the spam that comes in to all my email accounts, encrypt it and send it back out.
those NSA circuit breakers gonna blow,...
Lets set up a DHT of auto-responders that encrypt the reply and send to another auto-responder at random.
Oh wait on a large scale that might take down the entire internet unless we rate limit SMTP.
You know, 90% of mail is spam now and the internet has absorbed that. Probably what this means is that it's time for a new email / comm paradimn, one in which there is encryption, some small cost per email, possibly distributed to peer servers eg. 0.01 cent US per email would eliminate spam totally and reward the peer servers. No commercial data mining on emails possible.
Fix all problems in one giant leap.
Do not focus just on NSA. Remember there is FBI, IRS, and all those of foreign countries, plus the domestic despots of klepto krony capitalism: Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc...
