&gt; The NSA is not actually primarly protecting the people, its protecting itself first, the government second and third, maybe the people a little bit.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t put the people that high up the list. Remember that their programs haven&#x27;t been shown to save a single person. Even with the insane amount of pressure that they had because of the Snowden revelations they couldn&#x27;t come up with some sort weasel logic that allowed them to claim that hundreds of lives had been saved. They don&#x27;t care for that.<p>The terrorists have been using encryption forever and will keep doing so even if it&#x27;s outlawed in major western countries. Just the other day it was reported that ISIS has its own encrypted chat app. Attempting to fuck up encryption for the masses won&#x27;t help anyone.