Yes, so far NSA has been successful as promoting mass surveillance as a matter of "security" not just against terrorists (which we now learn is being very waste

Yes, so far NSA has been successful as promoting mass surveillance as a matter of "security" not just against terrorists (which we now learn is being very wasteful and ineffective), but against "cyber-attacks", too. Every time they talked about cyber-attacks, they implied Congress need to give them more powers and more money, which they later used for offensive actions, rather than securing the networks. NSA has zero interest in security networks at this point. Maybe they cared about that a little before 9/11, but I don't think they care about it at all anymore. All they want to do now is be able to break into everything or have backdoors into everything, which means they will not only hoard systems' vulnerabilities for themselves, but they also won't even use that knowledge to secure domestic systems, because the truth is they want access to domestic systems, too, and to them that has a higher priority than securing those systems even against China and so on. The NAS has probably always had this corrupted idea about security, but I think it became much more so when they merged the US Cyber Command with the NSA. Bottomline is that we need to educate others that surveillance is pretty much the opposite of "cyber-security", and we need to call NSA out on it everytime they try to use the lie that they're the same.