User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-71.79.169.229-20140205072249/@comment-970089-20140205094133

>>>>As long as your not doing something illegal what is there to worry about?

Or Foriegn. These schemes are used to spy on the leaders of countries supposed to be allies of the USA.

Lets say you're in a relationship that goes bad. your now Ex gets a job at the NSA, and does a seach on you. Bam, what does s/he know now that you don't want them to know?

Or lets say you're a person with a bank account and a credit card. Criminals like bank accounts and credit card numbers. Now they have a new system to break into and explot that contains a lot of em. Can you be sure that the encryption breaking techniques wont fall into their hands? That someone with access to it wont ever have a gambling debt?