The US had a wiretap on Merkel. Do you think Russia, China, Germany, Israel, Iran and North Korea don't have the same on every other major political figure?

Let's face the truth: none of us is safe. Everything we do, even if we are just oedinary 9-5 office workers and not politicians or activists, is ending up recorded somewhere.

The only way out would be a nation-state effort of open source: everything from the VHDL of the chips over firmware to the OS, and enough money to fund audits of all components. At least, users could then somewhat trust at least their clients, and treat the network as a dumb leaky network of pipes.