I think he's mostly shortcutting conclusions. Not jumping, just cutting corners. As for evidence: we know from Schneier's previous posts that he actually has so

I think he's mostly shortcutting conclusions. Not jumping, just cutting corners. As for evidence: we know from Schneier's previous posts that he actually has some hard evidence, having been provided yet-unknown-number of Snowden documents. In this case I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. We can't, at the moment, know what the documents contain or what they prove. We do know that there are still more stories coming out based on the material. I think the technical term for withholding the evidence in this case is "embargo". > fearful of the NSA because they're tracking EVERYONE... except, it's only an assumption. "Only"? Really? How about the known fiber taps? The splitter rooms?[1] The fact that the NSA tried to belittle their activities by stating that they are "only touching 1.6% of all internet traffic"?[2] Their stated application of three degrees of separation? (Sorry, can't find a reference for this one now.) Considering that 1.6% of traffic can easily skip all the video and torrent traffic, it leaves quite a lot of communication data to trawl through. I don't remember seeing any good figures so I don't know how much of the global internet traffic routes through US but I guess it's a fair chunk. 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A 2: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/13/nsa-internet-traffic-surveillance http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/13/nsa-int...