Charlie writes: > Over many years, although, I may not ever be in possession of anything > of interest to anyone?
There are two distinct "security" condsiderations here that are often munged together: 1) Our ethical/moral/political objections to being tracked and snooped on. 2) Our actual risk of injury[1] due to security failures. Both are important, but the second should be addressed first. It should be done objectively, by first constructing a threat model: who or what could (and would) actually harm you? The data trawling activities of my government[2] angers me but when I think about it objectively I realize that it does me no actual harm: I'm simply not someone they care about. [1] Injury in a legal sense, ranging from death to loss of property to embarrassment. [2] If you believe that your government doesn't do it too you are extremely naive. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA