The NSA sure isn't saying anything. Intelligence agencies have access to good cryptographic technology. So do the big arms and drug traffickers. So do defense contractors, oil companies, and other corporate giants. But ordinary people and local and alternative political organizations mostly have not had access to affordable ways of protect their privacy.
Privacy is a right like any other.
You have to exercise it or risk losing it. All transmissions are going to be through the open air one day, and there is no way to protect that. Soon this will be an world based on computers, and if things go the way they have been, then nothing will remain private.