Crypto wars redux?

[Dave Howe]

On 19/01/2015 14:56, Roland Perry wrote:
> And everyone else is probably forgetting that gathering information
> about who is contacting who, is most of the time just as valuable as
> what was actually said.

And yet, they already HAVE that (in spades, if the story at
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/19/gchq-intercepted-emails-journalists-ny-times-bbc-guardian-le-monde-reuters-nbc-washington-post
is anything to go by) but apparently that isn't good enough?