HN is not the best place to have these discussions about privacy because most of the folks here are neck deep building a surveillance economy. If your job depe

HN is not the best place to have these discussions about privacy because most of the folks here are neck deep building a surveillance economy. If your job depends on not understanding something you wont so it's easy to brush away surveillance issues just like those whose livelihood is impacted by global warming find it easy to brush away those issues. There is the old trope about I don't care or have nothing to hide which is self servingly obtuse because surveillance is not about you the individual, its about the health of your society. And the tired cliche about people not caring, well if people get impacted and begin to draw the dots they will care very much. So this just rests on a fleeting ignorance of the scope of surveillance. Whisper systems uses your phone number which directly ties to your identity when any privacy conscious service that is half sincere will do everything in its power to avoid such gratuitous tie-ins.