[downandout]

Encryption won't help you, since a judge will simply throw you in jail for contempt until you cough up the key or give them a copy of the decrypted data. Honestly, in this hostile government environment, if you have something worth protecting you need to have a "dead man switch" on your data. Unless you take an action every few days (which you can't if in jail) then your data gets deleted.

[pronoiac]

I may be misreading this, but I think there's a big difference between "being readily accessible to the NSA" and "taking a judge to make it available."

[downandout]

If, through whatever means, they become interested enough in your data, they can just go judge shopping until they find one that decides that NSA suspicion is enough to issue a search warrant.

[rosser]

True enough, but that scales very poorly, while their current approach demonstrably scales rather well.

In a game of picking one's battles, that seems like an easy win; I'll worry about contempt charges and rubber hoses some other day.