>One person picketing outside the NSA HQ won't do jack shit. Seven billion people picketing outside of the NSA HQ won't do jack shit either, except that nobody

>One person picketing outside the NSA HQ won't do jack shit. Seven billion people picketing outside of the NSA HQ won't do jack shit either, except that nobody will be doing anything interesting enough to warrant being spied on by the NSA. Picketing is not what I am talking about. However, one person using technology that respects their privacy does do jack shit. It respects their privacy. >This issue needs to be battled legally, politically, socially (protest), and privately (apps that encrypt everything). Not really. If an animal's relationship to me is that it wants to eat me, and if I don't want it to, then I protect myself from being eaten by it by making it impossible for it to eat me. I don't take it to court. I don't talk to a politician about it. I don't rally in public with others who similarly would prefer to not get eaten. I do the thing I need to do to protect my interests and the interest of those around me. The NSA's relationship to me is to invade my privacy. Preventing them from doing that, by using technology responsibly, is sufficient. Even if we could cause the NSA to disband through social means, we wouldn't stop using SSL. Our predator wouldn't be the NSA in that case, it would be a script kiddie. And then we would have to protest the script kiddies. I hope you can see how absurd of a solution this looks. People who don't want to get sick from germs do not protest germs. They wash their hands. >I appreciate your point of view, but you can't "do" alone. I wash my hands alone.