So the top InfoSec news of the week has to be the revelation that not only has the NSA been scooping up all the inter-bits, everywhere, all the time, but that they can decrypt all most all of them.  They do this not only by (limited) brute-force cracking, but by "acquiring" commercial keys, by hook or by crook.

What chafes my butt about this is that to paraphrase Pres. Obama, we HAD this "public discussion" back in the '90s when NSA wanted to require the CLIPPER chip. The subject was debated, extensively, by all stake-holders, and the DEMOCRATIC decision was that we valued our privacy more than the government's need to provide security.

Apparently, the NSA decided they are above the law, and so they subverted the will of the people and reached their goals anyway.

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."  - Lord Acton