TFA lists an email address for feedback. I'm not certain that it's appropriate for end-users, but I didn't let a little thing like that stop me from letting them know what I think about their little 'utility'. Perhaps others should do the same.

Both, actually. The telcos should have to answer for what they did. If the answer is 'here are the documents showing the requests the executive branch made', then they can have a measure of amnesty, and we go after the executive branch, instead.

Of course, this would all be a lot easier if the legislative branch weren't so busy bowing and scrapping before the executive, themselves. With the new laws, the one ally the people had (i.e., an already split judicial branch) will be permanently barred from taking the administration to task for this; all we'll have left is a report from congress...

One thing that will be interesting in the future is Ubuntu LTS releases. It provides a fairly stable/static set of libraries and kernel. This may be something that could be targeted in the future by developers for linux applications.