About a year ago, a disgruntled NSA contractor ran off with a bunch of classified documentation and released it to a bunch of news organizations before fleeing to Hong Kong and later Moscow. The files therein explained an ongoing campaign to systematically violate the privacy of American and non-American citizens, compromise the security of encryption standards, install malicious software onto the routers of arbitrarily selected "high-value targets", and generally make the world less secure because we can.