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I don't think much talk about it is surprise, just that PRISM being in the news provides a chance to talk about mass surveillance without looking like a raving paranoid. It'll die out in a few months and people will look at us like we're wearing tinfoil hats again, but maybe there will be more of us raving paranoids. Progress!
I admit I was surprised at the extent. I suspected, and call me naive, but I had thought it entirely probable that all my emails were at least behind a rubber stamping judge. I was actually told by someone that worked in an intelligence agency that they were careful not to catch US citizen communications without a warrant. I do think he believed it.