How to stop the NSA spying on your data

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829215.400-how-to-stop-the-nsa-spying-on-your-data.html#.UbtG6dhf9EM

Internet giants including Google and Facebook strongly deny that the NSA has direct access to its servers. There is another way, however. A slide from an internal NSA Powerpoint presentation suggests the agency is siphoning directly from fibre-optic cables. To do this, it probably uses "splitters", which split the light beam.

Recent research by Andrew Clement at the University of Toronto, Canada, shows that 99 per cent of US internet traffic goes through one of just 18 cities. So if the NSA installed splitters at a few strategic points "it could intercept a large proportion of internet traffic", Clement says.