That's what they want you to think. :-) There's also point #4, "Some beautiful misdirection", in https://blog.thinkst.com/p/if-nsa-has-been-hacking-everything-

That's what they want you to think. :-) There's also point #4, "Some beautiful misdirection", in https://blog.thinkst.com/p/if-nsa-has-been-hacking-everything-how.html https://blog.thinkst.com/p/if-nsa-has-been-hacking-everythin... discussed 3 days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24139828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24139828 Maybe they'd really prefer to take the public relations hit of everybody thinking that they spy on Americans.