I'm not arguing it's hard to get around in practice, but it is illegal. As with every other time we mention NSA, if you're going to assume they will break the

I'm not arguing it's hard to get around in practice, but it is illegal. As with every other time we mention NSA, if you're going to assume they will break the law as a matter of course then you must leave the Internet immediately or face spying. :P On the other hand if you want to posit that being easy to break the law is reason enough to burn all the transatlantic fiber so that GCHQ can't cooperate with NSA then simply say so, it's at least theoretically a defensible starting point for a debate.