We are using their own control grid to mess up their shit, and they are getting scared.
No, we are not messing up anything, we are playing in the sandbox. The reason they created the Internet was to put all communications at one place for the purpose of achieving perfect surveillance. (it fulfills part of the Cummunist Manifesto - Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the State
http://web.archive.org/web/19990221045304/http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7006/com-man.html)
Look at "Interception Capabilities 2000"
http://www.cyber-rights.org/interception/stoa/ic2kreport.htme.g.
It follows that foreign Internet traffic of communications intelligence interest - consisting of e-mail, file transfers, "virtual private networks" operated over the internet, and some other messages - will form at best a few per cent of the traffic on most US Internet exchanges or backbone links. According to a former employee, NSA had by 1995 installed "sniffer" software to collect such traffic at nine major Internet exchange points (IXPs).(37) The first two such sites identified, FIX East and FIX West, are operated by US government agencies. They are closely linked to nearby commercial locations, MAE East and MAE West (see table). Three other sites listed were Network Access Points originally developed by the US National Science Foundation to provide the US Internet with its initial "backbone".