WHY THE NSA’S SPYING on offline computers is less scary than mass surveillance.

Two thoughts: One, I'm not convinced that the NSA's 'mass surveillance' is particularly scary, for the simple reason that while it's hard to find a needle in a haystack, it's much harder being filled even faster than you can comb through it for needles. Like ObamaCare, the NSA's email collection programs will soon collapse of their own weight.

My second thought is that the wireless surveillance tools in the NSA's toolkit are also available commercially. Imagine their use by, say, Project Veritas.