Did none of these people read Machiavelli? Relying too much on foreign governments, especially "friendly" imperialists is never safe because it gives them a degree of control over you. That's a problem no matter who is in charge. If you slept through the PRISM scandal and are only regretting your failure to take action because you don't like the guy who just won an election, then you're beyond salvation.
At the very minimum you should be encrypting all data before you transmit it to machines you don't physically control, but even that's not necessarily good enough because it still gives them the ability to withhold that data from you. And that's to speak nothing of some hypothetical future technology that may be able to defeat your encryption entirely.
At the very minimum you should be encrypting all data before you transmit it to machines you don't physically control, but even that's not necessarily good enough because it still gives them the ability to withhold that data from you. And that's to speak nothing of some hypothetical future technology that may be able to defeat your encryption entirely.