[veidr]

That is probably not true -- there are a lot of things that we encrypted in 2005 that they still probably cannot decrypt today.

More to the point, the NSA definitely can't decrypt everything that was encrypted a decade ago. They may be able to decrypt certain things that have somehow caught their interest.

Generally, it still makes sense for all of us to encrypt by default. But OTOH a central feature of these photo services is 'easily share pics with anybody you want', so obviously they need the plaintext data to do that.

I agree with junto that I would like encryption options, but I use these services anyhow because my photos just really aren't as interesting as when I was young -- mainly 100s of nearly-identical shots of babies drooling.

In one sense, the NSA can have the photos of my toddler; who gives a shit.

OTOH, though, it will suck when the shitty face recognition algorithms they are datamining with in 5 years generate a partial match between my son eating a rag and Jihadi John, and the feds come kick in the door to my house in the middle of the night and shoot my dog before anybody realizes what's happening... so yeah, I would just rather have it all encrypted by default.