[EthanHeilman]

Of course by "state-level adversary" you mean the United States. There are plenty of states with very poor computer attack capabilities, in fact most states aren't very good at it.

Its not merely being a target that is the problem, it is being a high priority target for a long period of time. Eventually they'll find a way to get your communications, but how many days or months does a technology buy you, at what cost to you and to them. Why do you think they are willing to spend that cost on people that aren't Snowden, Greenwald? It isn't win or lose, its mitigation.

We should judge security technologies not on absolutes but on relative merits given the reasonable security goals we wish to achieve (note that Snowden was able to achieve communications security against the NSA/GCHQ long enough to complete his goal).

[eli]

It is naive to think the US is the only country with means and motivation to launch major cyber-spying campaigns. http://www.kaspersky.com/about/news/virus/2014/Kaspersky-Lab...