the dissident and his life.... E.g., ... $2m per dissident.
Eh, sorry, $2m for a life?
You could argue that dissidents should use PGP. But then, as I outlined, we are not just talking about dissidents, but about husband<->wife or anybody having anything *really* private in email, and that's almost anybody or at least 20% of the userbase. The value of privacy can't be expressed in dollars.
The NSA is (as far as we know) defeated completely by unauthenticated crypto techniques such as self-signed certs
haha.
Until it decides to take special action against a particular target
...which is when things get interesting...
any of a half dozen basic crypto techniques will give complete privacy.
"As long as nobody cares to listen, you have complete privacy." Surely true, but not very satisfactionary.
Echelon
BTW: A good source for information about that is the special in Telepolis, I think it was actually the magazine which brought all this into public, esp. Christiane Schulzki Haddouti. Unfortunately most of it is in German.
<http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/ech/>
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