Um.... duh?<p>This is the essence of the Snowden revelations: there are no meaningful restraints on the NSA. We can safely ignore everything they or other government representatives say about their activities and assume that the NSA is spying on everyone, all the time, through every mechanism possible, and will continue to expand their reach indefinitely.<p>Of <i>course</i> they are going to spy on us through IoT devices. That&#x27;s a given. The interesting question is this: what would we have to do in order to make those spying efforts unproductive?