And the NSA is not some magic eye of Sauron. You can dodge their gaze. Yes you need 'ridiculous' amounts of effort, but that's the price one pays for being anonymous. You need to make surveillance expensive, and this is done through good opsec combined with properly implemented cryptography (no side channel attacks possible). Snowden changed the game here. Many have gone dark and the NSA is now compromised as a result.
And the NSA is not some magic eye of Sauron. You can dodge their gaze. Yes you need 'ridiculous' amounts of effort, but that's the price one pays for being anonymous. You need to make surveillance expensive, and this is done through good opsec combined with properly implemented cryptography (no side channel attacks possible). Snowden changed the game here. Many have gone dark and the NSA is now compromised as a result.