In the US the fact that encryption was a part or the origin of the case would not matter much after some quality parallel construction.
Hint at a list of concurrent and consecutive court options and you sign before the case goes to court or turn informant.

China would throw 10x as many half assed shitboxes and still win. They need to be cheap and reliable
Russia and China learned a lot for their well placed spies in the US during Vietnam and later the Soviet Unions experiences in Afghanistan. You dont get a clean airstrip, you get crumbling cement, you dont get moderate temperatures. You dont get to slow fast fighters down, you dont get to go low and see all with the new fast kit you had for the next war.
So you have to invest in a lot of different kit, that looks after the crew and lets you fly a varied missions with the crew returning.
The US has tried to focus on emerging electronics and packing multiple roles into one export winner.
Can expensive mercenaries and contractors flying networked drones really fill in the hours and ammo count when other established systems are replaced by the one export winner?

" international sales will offset at least some of the expense both directly and indirectly." are usually subsidized by the US tax payer as a thank you for shared sites, sites for the NSA, joint training and systems integration. Dont forget the shareholders have to be looked after too.
International buyers will offset their own domestic budgets by supporting the emerging USA systems and request big US discounts over years.
They can always hint at pondering other aircraft next time.

Thinking back to the old hardware you could have a secure sandpit and memory on Unix like devices.
You could have a secure sandpit and memory on consumer computers at a huge cost in cash and GUI slowness.
Speed to market for 1.0, GUI look and feel, security, costs, speed to market with new features vs security.
Helping the police and security services without slowing down the dev and release cycle.
The hardware was just too costly and slow at the consumer level vs a responsive, secure, feature rich software offering.
It was beyond the needs of the beta productivity and games rush to market.

Selling to schools, parents and teachers?
Just as a search engine brand likes do deals with US government agencies directly...subcontractor like
Why not do do deals with US educational institutions directly...
You need lobbying, sales reps... partnerships with established contractors and end up with partnerships that range from a few thousand dollars to multiple millions.

Cant get the law reform to need a court document per interesting person? Then just stop using the phone as they are all been noted.

Voice prints ;) and you get the inner circle of friends and family trusted to play phone games all day.
As far as crypto goes, a key logger or software layer to capture every keystroke would be easy to introduce to any consumer device pushed down the tame phone network.

Every digital layer a call makes without the voice part. Who you called, who called you, unique phone and network details. Dump form enough towers and you get locations over time.

By now the ones not under constant watch or in prison would have worked out to meet face to face without any electronic devices around.

The same problem existed for the East German files on the West. The East Germans had good long term human contacts around top West German leaders in gov and the private sector. The files you will see are mostly on East Germans been totally spied on by their own friends, family and gov. The huge risk is the historian showing methods and plots as seen from an outside service been noted for and now found. eg what East German saw in West Germany. It also shows why the the usual sock puppet question of where all the leaks for Russia and China are: they might have existed over decades but will only be published in small cleaned up sections in national archives. More on what Russia did internally, less on what Russia saw western governments and intelligence agencies doing.
Just like the UK records around SLO (Security Liaison Officers) where after 1945 and released only after the High Court in the UK forced their release in April 2012.

Try http://distrowatch.com/search.... and select GNOME in the Desktop interface and Wayland in the Package search.

Think back to how Nixon opened closed China up to the free West.
Think about the tax status of the emerging industrial parks in China.
You had low cost workers, low cost local inputs for all the regional products.
Then you had the costly cutting edge science from West Germany, Japan, the US, South Korea been installed with local partners to escape their own taxes and costs.
Decades later the owners have two options: find more cheap workers in a Laos or Indonesia or other nations that provide lines of cheap, steady, skilled hands to put together tiny parts to make a final product. vs.
New robots on the old sites in China as all the services are in place.
China is also changing. It wants its own brands globally and not just be the factory floor for value added outside brands.
The cost and complexity of saving costs on every tiny gap and space in new product is slowly getting more costly with human hands than with new robots.
Its cheaper in China as many interests who make products sold out long ago. Everything is in place and ready.
In other nations you have to lobby for breaks in federal, state, city taxes and request discounted site services. Only to find out the government got voted out and your tax break was not legal and the site is been fined until full payments are made.
Communism offers todays entrepreneurial capitalist some certainty for a set price.

We are all on the collect it all list :)
The crux of the NSA story in one phrase: 'collect it all' (15 July 2013)
http://www.theguardian.com/com...