You're probably better informed than I was. I consider reasonably tech savvy, but I didn't understand - or even suspect - the scale of the surveillance state. Things like intercepts at cross-continent cables, prying open the content of unencrypted data going among data centers, and the like. I was astonished.

I was never on Facebook, post only non-personal stuff to G+ (and am seriously reconsidering Android and Google's ecosystem entirely), and no longer entrust PGP encryption since we now know it's hackable. I'm tempted to go back to POP mail and take all my mail offline. I'm more depressed than ever.