The files show that the National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have broadly compromised the guarantees that internet companies have given consumers to reassure them that their communications, online banking and medical records would be indecipherable to criminals or governments.
The agencies, the documents reveal, have adopted a battery of methods in their systematic and ongoing assault on what they see as one of the biggest threats to their ability to access huge swathes of internet traffic – "the use of ubiquitous encryption across the internet".
'According to an intelligence budget document leaked by Mr. Snowden, the N.S.A. spends more than $250 million a year on its Sigint Enabling Project, which “actively engages the U.S. and foreign IT industries to covertly influence and/or overtly leverage their commercial products’ designs” to make them “exploitable.”' - Article Excerpt (Sept. 5, 2013)
Of course spies will spy, that's what they do, I'd rather have them spy me by sniffing my packets than to have a drone floating over the streets all the time. They can spy whatever they want as far as I'm concerned, I don't care about governmental spy agencies at all, they should just be honest in what they do so that it costs less money and doesn't expose closed software and hardware customers to as much security risks.
The real danger comes from spying by commercial companies, the kind that would sell their mother to the devil for a blowjob by a crackwhore, the kind that thinks that everything comes at a price, the kind that has no life and wants to prevent others from having one, the kind that thinks of "God" as the word with the most return on investment per character in the word, etc...
Governmental spy agencies aren't as dangerous, because they think the population is dumb, commercial spy mafias are dangerous, because they want to make the population dumb.