If you think its acceptable that a secret government agency can inject itself in any technology device, for whatever purpose it sees fit, without any recourse for the citizens of the country it is supposedly &#x27;supporting&#x27;, that its acceptable for an agency to have the power to spy on <i>everyone</i> who has ever used a computer, cell phone, or any Internet device, for whatever reason it deems suitable, without oversight from the very <i>people</i> from whom it derives such power, then there really is no decent conversation to be had, here.<p>&quot;Fringe extremes&quot; is just your way of saying &#x27;you don&#x27;t think what the collective mind wants you to think, why are you not like everyone else&#x27;, and in that statement you have said more than enough.  You don&#x27;t think its at all disagreeable to have to &#x27;conform to what society thinks&#x27; or else .. &quot;you must be mentally ill&quot;?<p>Seriously, examine this position.  Its a cult-like mentality that doesn&#x27;t improve conditions - it simply allows those who have the power to continue to extend it and interfere in every day life.  Are you okay with having a shadowy organization, <i>with everyones data</i>, beyond the reach of the people you profess to be a major &#x27;part of&#x27; in your collective mind-set?<p>Because I am not.  I live in a place where the echoes of tyranny and the heinous information-apparatus it depended on still ring throughout the land.  And here you are, safely justifying the creation of a new one, with little consideration for what it truly means that we have <i>no control</i> over the digital domain and its masters, any  more.<p>Popular opinion is just one way to justify being too lazy to form ones own ..