@dafyre said:
I think a lot of times, especially now-days, encryiption is necessary to protect ourselves from all kinds of prying eyes -- including hackers and three-letter agencies.
We can only claim, from a court perspective, to be protecting ourselves from the unsavory. Sadly the courts will probably more often than not side with law enforcement if not for the fact that these protections (think encryption) are needed to protect ourselves from non law unsavory types.
The good thing is there are enough of those to keep us going indefinitely.