"It's kind of a hobby for me too. I've spent years (mostly lurking) on the cypherpunk mailing list. (there are internet archives going back almost a decade). People have no idea of the current tech the government can make use of to snoop on them. It's only going to get worse.
Apparently "terrorism" is the root password to the Constitution."
WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO HIDE? Don't you support our Government protecting us from the MUSLIM KILLERS? Get real.
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
- Samuel Adams, quoted in "Citizen's Rule Book", Whitten Printers, Phoenix AZ