[slg]

Lots of people are bringing up these type of issues, so let me just address them generally. Defaults are important. Yes, it was always possible to build some elaborate booby trapped safe, bury the evidence in the middle of the Mojave Desert, or cook up some home made encryption algorithm to hide evidence. However that wasn't the default. It took elaborate planning and dedication that most people simply didn't have. For example if the average person jotted down an offhanded note, they probably did it in plain English on a regular piece of paper and left it on their desk at home. Now the same note would by default be encrypted on their phone and protected against warrants.

[adamc]

In the same way that private verbal communications are protected by the fifth amendment -- we cannot force people to testify against themselves about possibly incriminating things.

This is a slippery slope.