So what? That&#x27;s not analysis, it&#x27;s numerology. Just because some things are true doesn&#x27;t mean all theories are equally deserving of dignity. But the notion that the USG was monitoring the Internet was entirely deserving of dignity:<p>* It&#x27;s their job<p>* The software security industry is full of people who used to hack professionally for them<p>* There&#x27;d been a major news story roughly every other year since the 1990s Echelon thing about NSA dragnet surveillance<p>There are <i>still</i> things people say about NSA that have the tenor of conspiracy theories --- some of them being things Snowden actually said! --- and you might be able to make observations about the character of the people who believe those things (I don&#x27;t know, that was the other commenter&#x27;s point).<p>But the basic outline of what NSA is doing with the Internet is <i>not</i> a conspiracy theory.