Comment by Santosh83

Maybe good for hiding activity when you're already below the radar. If you're a person of interest for a large enough state then they can and will use all manner of dirty tactics to nail you and simply encrypting is not enough. You will have to flee like Snowden did. And once they bring in legislation that says a govt agent can ask for your decryption keys under reasonable doubt then everyone is in soup since encrypted data is easy enough to detect as such. One may have to shift to steganography of increasing sophistication. Basically this fight has to be clinched politically. While technology can help it can't ensure absolute privacy/security against an all-powerful state. The key question is if a state should be all-powerful at all in the first place...