[exelius]

There's a difference between bad crypto and easier to use crypto. Just because it isn't 100% secure all the time doesn't mean it's not useful. If they have to go through the trouble of breaking each individual message rather than just gathering everything in a dragnet; that's good enough in my mind. You have to make mass surveillance expensive enough that it's no longer worth it.

You as an individual cannot fight a state actor. It doesn't matter how secure your crypto is; they can hold a gun to your head and force you to give up the key (or in more civilized countries, throw you in prison forever). If you become an individual target to a state actor, there is literally nothing you can do to stop them unless another state actor is willing to protect you: they have the resources of an entire economy behind them and there's no security solution you can cobble together that will be able to keep them out.

Even Snowden, who practices a paranoid level of OpSec, just assumes his electronic communications are being read. The only reason the CIA hasn't done an extrajuducial rendition on him is that he is living under the protection of another state actor (Russia).