There's still a major limit there. The issue of the Verizon and PRISM systems is that they probably involve the possibility at least of legal authority over th

There's still a major limit there. The issue of the Verizon and PRISM systems is that they probably involve the possibility at least of legal authority over the vendors. Court orders or possibilities of court orders.... If the NSA is spying on Australians clandestinely, then they don't have that authority and they are limited to what they can scavange. It would be far better if we were to a point where no courts would coerce cooperation of this sort, and the system you are describing is better than what we have. The problem is when the NSA gets a court to forcibly deputize an American business to spy on Australians, and that's a very, very different problem.