If the secret service is relying on snooped messages as the main affective method to catch criminals then it&#x27;s doing it wrong. They&#x27;re stuck in the WW2 mentality where they could listen on radio and decrypt codes. Back then it was very effective but that was 60 years ago.<p>Secret services should consider decrypted communication as a nice to have, but they should be completely capable of being effective without decrypting communication channels and listening on private citizens.