And I'm not the only person on the Internet to know that what Snowden released has been 'known' to the internet community for 20+ years. A release of documents does not consititute proof of what one already knows, because we all knew this type of surveilance was being done on a regular basis BECAUSE IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN DONE[1]. Just because we use wires and bits over pen and paper doesn't mean the governments and people in control don't want to have as much information about who they are 'controlling' as they can:

    Don't try to tell me that some power can corrupt a person
    You haven't had enough to know what its like[2]

Read some (good) history sometimes too see more startling revelations of the 'unthinkable' things your governments and controllers might be doing[3][4].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_room for an example.

[2] http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/nineinchnails/capitalg.html

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_Uni...

[4] http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=histo...