[alldayeveryday]

I think we are talking cross purposes. I agree with your evaluation that this is an improvement over current state. I did not cite whether you think it is good or bad that intelligence agents could spy on this data. I was referring to the fact that most secret surveillance is expressly for the purposes of intelligence rather than prosecution. Surveillance methods that are secretive are, by their very nature of being secretive, typically not used for prosecutionary evidence gathering due to the fact that such use would reduce the method's secrecy. Until Apple can provide some verifiable proof that my keys cannot be handed off to governmental parties wishing to decrypt my data, I will not feel comfortable using their cloud service for my personal data (not that my family vacation photos and pictures of our dog will be that interpreting to anyone).