This is what I thought all along.<p>A) Access is MUCH broader than just tapping Google, FB, MSFT, etc. Access is at the far broader level of telecommunication cables. Encryption can be broken later, with specialty FPGA chips.<p>B) More importantly, the US taking "everything foreign" and with GCHQ (also) taking "everything foreign" ... the Venn set of these two closely associated govt spying operations means they get "everything, period", including US domestic communications.<p>If true, the Snowden revelations are (small) child's play to what may actually be being surveilled, which may indeed be everything.