That would mean they've broken TLS which, whatever powers the NSA supposedly has, seems unlikely. I don't think they would be intercepting SSL traffic either,

That would mean they've broken TLS which, whatever powers the NSA supposedly has, seems unlikely. I don't think they would be intercepting SSL traffic either, because Google has a hard enough time legitimately updating their certificates [1] that I imagine if the government were doing it on a wide scale people would definitely notice. [1]: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/changes-to-our-ssl-certificates.html?m=1 http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/changes-...