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You can very easily slow them down if not divert their efforts outright, FRiend. Phone calls and text messages, yes, you’re at the whim of your provider, and most of them will willing give into government requests.

You have a LOT more control over your computers, however. Until they outlaw encryption tech, they can’t read what you’re doing online without your permission.

First thing you should do is invest in a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) for your computer if your motherboard supports it. This is a digitally-fingerprinted encryption module that is as unique as a fingerprint and specific to your computer’s configuration and utilizes a hash that is so complex as to be impossible to crack without utilizing quantum computing technology not yet available.

With that TPM, you can then encrypt your hard drives or at least portions of them. I create a few encrypted “shards” on my main disks. On those shards, I keep valuable information about my identity, bank accounts, investment information, and most importantly: my browser cache.

I use Firefox, and you can set it up where your profile (e.g. browser cache) is stored on this encrypted shard. It contains every last thing about where you’ve been, what you’ve downloaded, history, bookmarks, everything. Without it being loaded, Firefox won’t even start. Without the multi-factor password and certificate hash, no one can get into it. They can arrest me and torture me until I’m dead, but only I can give them access with the information in my brain.

Invest in a digital certificate, invest in a TPM, download a password locker, and keep an encrypted thumbdrive handy for secure data. Lock that in a safe or a bank safe deposit box, and you’ll be as secure as you possibly can be without doing as you suggest and live in a cave.

You can very easily slow them down if not divert their efforts outright, FRiend.

Slow down? Maybe. Stop or divert? Fat chance.

Phone calls and text messages, yes, you’re at the whim of your provider, and most of them will willing give into government requests.

They don't even have to "give in" anymore. The feds are tapped into the computers/networks of telecommunications companies with their support.

This is a digitally-fingerprinted encryption module that is as unique as a fingerprint and specific to your computer’s configuration and utilizes a hash that is so complex as to be impossible to crack without utilizing quantum computing technology not yet available.

The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

From the above link --

"But “this is more than just a data center,” says one senior intelligence official who until recently was involved with the program. The mammoth Bluffdale center will have another important and far more secret role that until now has gone unrevealed. It is also critical, he says, for breaking codes. And code-breaking is crucial, because much of the data that the center will handle—financial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal documents, confidential personal communications—will be heavily encrypted. According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US."

What is the use in encrypting your private info on your own computer when the feds can and do just get it directly from the banks, etc?

They can get that info from Google, etc, correct?

I didn't suggest living in a cave. That said, none of your planning accounts for getting the same info via third parties through a variety of (currently) legal ways or account for such things as electronic commerce.

In other words, if they want it, they'll get it. And they want it.