I understand your apathy and your acceptance of the fact that some third-party more than likely has access to your internet footprint. But as kb said elsewhere in this thread, the NSA demonstrably overstepped its charter, is breaking the law, and it should be stopped, as a matter of judicial principle. Just like we arrest and punish street criminals, we ought to put a stop to injustices carried out by the government (and white collar criminals while we're dreaming, not a single arrest and conviction in relation to the ballooned mortgage market!?). Sure this is a convenient excuse for some to get outraged on the internet, but that's not an excuse to drop this cause.
I haven't dropped it. You'll notice I said I don't like it and consider it illegal, I'm just not going to fool myself and pretend on the internet that I'm going to do something about it. I vote, I caucus, I attend primaries, and I'll do what I can there. But beyond that, I'm not going to fight some arm-chair revolution with anyone over this. That's all. Also, if people think the NSA is the only branch doing this, they need to read up, yet they are the only agency getting mentioned in all of this privacy stuff. The CIA, FBI, DEA, and DHS all have their own signals intelligence programs. People need to be mad at the politicians they voted for, or didn't vote for, because these programs are common across many branches of military and domestic law enforcement. It's not just the NSA. I get why it's a serious issue. I get why it's illegal. I get how it's unconstitutional. But I'm being honest about myself not going out into the streets to protest or revolt, yet that seems to be what all the people who are vehemently against this and outspoken over it seem to be talking about... yet I haven't seen a single person actually go out and do anything. Not one. So what makes me any different from them other than perhaps a little more self awareness? I'm just not fooling myself that I'm going to do anything about it outside of the voting booth.