I hate to repeat a post, but the latest NSA revelations are more profound than I can describe

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6. OK, so what are you bemoaning?

The fact that Google and Yahoo add secure socket layer (SSL) to their communications between data centres is well known. The fact that the location in the data stream where this encryption/decryption takes place is also no secret. This "post-it note" does not say or imply that the SSL encryption is broken.

Are you frightened that the NSA and the CIA have access to this publicly available information or are you just trying to stir up more paranoia?

Think about it for more than the half a second it takes you to turn into a Chicken Little; the NSA and CIA get their access to such data direct if they need it. Investigations into suspect encrypted communications are triggered by surveillance of the metadata which is the publicly open part of any internet communication and such access can always be requested or required from the owners of the servers; i.e. the SSL is irrelevant.

Now let me try again to get it through your skull - the internet never has been and was never intended to be secure and no-one should ever think that you have any privacy in the internet; there has never been such security and privacy.