In Defense of the NSA

[SteelCrysis]

Just when I thought I was done: http://www.extremetech.com/internet/2184...d-it-do-so
Based on this and other events, I have been thinking:

• Does anyone else think it's just too convenient that the mainstream media would have us believe that the NSA somehow hasn't actually found a single terrorist plot?
  
• Does anyone else think it's just too convenient that the stories about the Paris attackers using encryption had to be retracted under pressure from a flood of counteracting stories?
  
• Does anyone else think it doesn't make sense for the media to claim that prior knowledge of the Paris attackers from electronic surveillance means that electronic surveillance itself is a failure? After all, espionage and cryptanalysis warned about a general Japanese attack on the USA, but no one in the world claims that the entire world should have abandoned espionage and cryptanalysis because of Pearl Harbor. By the media's standard, the USA should have done just that.
  

Have any of you considered that you have a blind spot toward the mainstream media when it comes to your privacy?  Have any of you considered the possibility that all the stories of the NSA's supposed lack of necessity are a Big Lie invented by the mainstream media to get your ad dollars? You know, the same type of conspiracy ocre floats about pitbulls?