> So I take it you're totally OK with an adversary of yours spying on you, then? I think this part is what triggered my response, but I did ignore the second h

> So I take it you're totally OK with an adversary of yours spying on you, then? I think this part is what triggered my response, but I did ignore the second half of your comment. I saw no value on mixing the actual act of recklessly spying domestic and foreign citizens, and the particular legal definition of some government that justifies their own spying. Sure, governments can make laws to spy on their own citizens, but who are they to make laws to spy on the citizens of other governments? Moreso, governments won't respect the letter or the spirit of even their own laws if that suits them. The 21st century has become a clusterfuck of gratuitous spying and profiling, I wonder how the history books will portray this era if humanity somehow recovers from it.