Government abuse of electronic communications

This has long been a subject of interest to me, and it has become quite hot recently. The Edward Snowden leaks have given us the best glimpse yet of how far governments are prepared to go to eavesdrop on electronic communications and to compromise online security of basically everyone on the internet.

So I thought I'd start a thread where people can post interesting material as it crops up. While individual stories are scandalous enough, if you follow the topic for a while the way the pieces start fitting together starts looking quite scary.

This stuff is something that every web head needs to be aware of and resist. More soon!