Your title suggestion is too much of an assumption and accusation.
While the disclosure of Prism has confirmed what many tech minded people I know have always assumed, it does not stand to reason that other countries do not monitor chatter and would not act on intel that is valuable.
Basically, what I'm saying is to keep our minds open while reading these articles...an example of why would be if you remember Huawei Routers not being allowed in certain US infrastructure [0], or Clinton lobbying China to remove it's firewall [1].
Open minds can then start speculating past motivations in old articles.
I hope I didn't come off nationalistic...esp given my criminal record.
Why I linked those old articles, I imply that the US didn't want China to do what it was doing (which is what PRISM revealed) to have a backdoor into US infrastructure through Huewei routers, and that the administration wanted to possibly make it easier to monitor China's chatter by pushing for it to tear down the "Great Firewall."
The point is not that your comment was itself nationalistic, rather that you fell in to the trap of interpreting everything from the standpoint of a world divided in to nations. Why is this an issue? The totalitarian trajectory at issue here is one of importance globally, which will affect the future of all humanity. (Contrast: Einstein famously defined nationalism as an infantile disease; the measles of mankind.)
While the disclosure of Prism has confirmed what many tech minded people I know have always assumed, it does not stand to reason that other countries do not monitor chatter and would not act on intel that is valuable.
Basically, what I'm saying is to keep our minds open while reading these articles...an example of why would be if you remember Huawei Routers not being allowed in certain US infrastructure [0], or Clinton lobbying China to remove it's firewall [1].
Open minds can then start speculating past motivations in old articles.
[0] http://www.dailytech.com/Huaweis+CEO+and+Former+PLA+Officer+...
[1] http://www.salon.com/2010/01/22/hillary_clinton_internet_fre...