Encrypt all the things!

Le Monde and le Intercept broke a story on GCHQ surveillance in Africa.

the NSA systematically monitors telco company employees’ emails with the explicit purpose of collecting roaming documents, which it describes as “necessary for targeting and exploitation.” In other words, roaming managers are not spied on because they are suspected of wrongdoing or because they are of political or economic interest; rather, they are merely viewed as a means to an end.