@tyler@robbie on one hand we know that the NSA has basically unlimited power to fuck with big manufacturers and software developers.
On the other hand, every time we catch wind of mass surveillance it's always significantly more primitive than you would expect. Prism was literally just the NSA asking nicely for all the user data in a big god damn zip file. Stuff like this kind of financial monitoring seems unnecessary and silly if they have universal eyes on every word you have ever written into any computer. The people who really care about and research this stuff don't seem to believe that's happening.
I try to avoid spreading beliefs like that because it leads to a form of defeatism where people just say "oh well might as well just use windows on a naked ISP"